Claim Now Ramayla Buluşma (Rama, #1) Assembled By Arthur C. Clarke In Document

alien spaceship is sighted, People go and check it out, It's full of cool stuff,

Clarke adds some sex to show that he isn't just a holdout from the Golden Age, but his heart's not in it, As soon as they've finished, he wants to go out and explore the spaceship again, I can see his girlfriend rolling her eyes,
i like worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy, in these modern times, extensive worldbuilding is commonly derided, . . it is often seen as a lazy way to create a world, telling not showing, an author so in love with something they've built that they just want to describe instead of allowing the reader to slowly experience.
i understand that point of view worldbuilding can often be seen as a glorified, masturbatory infodump, but for some reason, it just doesn't bother me too much, i think this is because with good worldbuilding, i feel like i am looking at a kind of work of art created by the author a rather nerdy work of art, sure but still something that a person has put a lot of thought, energy, and passion into.
i really respond to all those details that the author is in love with sharing, but maybe i just have a high threshold for these kinds of things, as i'm also the kind of person who likes to hear all the details in a person's dreams.


Rendezvous takes worldbuilding to a different sort of place: Clarke is artifactbuilding, the amazing alien spaceship Rama is indeed amazing almost the entire novel is devoted to exploring this gigantic vessel, most of the narrative is in service to purely descriptive passages of Rama everything else is either minimal characterization or political discussions from various scientists amp ambassador types about how to respond to Rama.
all of this very focused worldbuilding has the potential for much boredom and irritation, but i never felt that the author's love for his creation is too clear, his details are too meticulous, his sense of wonder and his ability to concretely illustrate the almostunknowable are too skilled, too palpable.
despite my feeling that this novel essentially functions as a prologue to the 'real' action to come, i got caught up in Clarke's passion and enjoyed it all.


for such a man of science and largescale concepts, Clarke is a surprisingly warm writer, his characters are pleasant and real, there are no grand villains, at least not in this initial volume of the series, and he has a sense of humor particularly around sex one character is described as having no interest in anything outside of work, except for sports and sex preferably combined a highlevel scholar is described as originally making his reputation through researching "puberty rites in latetwentiethcentury Beverly Hills".
for all of the highfalutin' ideas on display, there is zero pretension present in Rendezvous,

although the novel ends before anything actually happens, there does seem to be interesting directions that the series could go, the slight mining of sexuality and gender roles could lead somewhere, and politics particularly around how government responds to the unknown are clearly an intriguing next step, i'm looking forward to seeing how this series pans out,

all that said, as far as Giant Mysterious Alien Artifacts go, right now my favorite is still Greg Bear's sitelinkEon which in many ways appears to be an homage to Rama.
DNF. I simply cannot believe that character development is limited to one sentence in most cases, and for women that space is used to talk about their tits and whether they've fucked Captain Norton.


The book itself is bland, anyway, There are many better first contact books written before and after Rendezvous with Rama, It's odd to think that this book was publishedyears ago, I don't know why that strikes me as strange, but it does,

It's tempting for me to call this book "Traditional Science Fiction, " Or "Classic Science Fiction" or something along those lines, But what I really mean to say is that this is a story where the science is one of the central aspects of the story,

The basic premise of the story is: In the future, humanity finds a alien spacecraft and investigates it,

A lot of the joy of exploration comes from the theory of how a spaceship might really work in terms of physics, How could you generate gravity on a spaceship How would it travel What would the aliens be like What would the purpose of these various pieces of the ships be Such as, for example, a large body of water, or featureless buildings on an island

It's an interesting story, but probably mostly interesting for people interested in the genuine science of interstellar/interplanetary travel.


For example, if you enjoyed The Martian, you have a good chance of liking this book, But be warned, the pacing is much different than The Martian, It's not First Person. It's not conversational. It's not painfully technical, but it was written in a different age,

Of particular interest to me was the fact that many of the smaller plot arcs of the books were very short, By which I mean to say that when a problem arises in the story, the resolution comes very soon afterwards, That limits the tension of the story somewhat, as you don't have time to get too worried over anything before it's fixed,

Lastly, it's important to note that this book ends with many questions unanswered, But the good news is that there are two more books in the series that will explore those questions further, and I trust Clarke to pay me off with good answers by the end of the series.




Later edit: I read the sequel, and I have to retract my previous statement, The followup book severely damaged my opinion of this book to the point where I don't know if I would reccomend it any more,

So if you were considering reading this book based on my review, you might want to

read this first in order to get the whole story.
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sitelink goodreads. com/review/show It was only after Id read Rendezvous with Rama that I found out it was a Big Dumb Object story, I mean, I knew Rama, the mysterious alien spaceshippy thing which appears in our solar system, was an object, and was dumb too it doesnt say a word to a soul, not one word and yes, it was big too, really big.
Bigger than a whale! Ten whales! But I didnt put it all together, However, some critics did, and unkindly pointed out that quite a bit of science fiction is about Big Dumb Objects which humans stumble upon and then spend some time poking or landing on or using a can opener on.
Fanboys like to gaze upon their bigness and have a shivery awefit, In the SF fanboy world, big is big, I read Eon and Ringworld and sure enough they are all about Big Dumb Objects, “It must be,kilometers long!” etc, And in The Incredible Shrinking Man everything eventually becomes a Big Dumb Object, Thats what happens if you just carry on shrinking, Course, if you become the incredible growing man, then even mile long spaceships become mere thimbles, and you can wear them on your gigantic fingertips.
“I use your mile long spaceships as thimbles, ha harrr!”

Actually in Rendezvous with Rama its all a bit queasy astronauts daringly land on it then walk about prodding it and waiting for it to what burst into life, exfoliate, produce something, sing dont just lie there! its like theyre a bunch of gynaecologists poking around in a stupendously large and complex womb.
Maybe Arthur Clarke had problems with his mum, or maybe terrible sibling rivalry this giant womb is gonna produce a brother or sister who will render earth a smouldering ember! Could be Im reading too much into all this.
But thats Big Dumb Objects for you, they scream out for interpretation, Theyre all in analysis. But they dont get much out of it, They never speak and they break the analysts couch, .