60 Advanced Alien Civilizations
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Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel ―“a stone-cold classic” of hard sci-fi (The Guardian).
Arthur C. Clarke
Other Books From This AuthorAn enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or “biots,” that inhabit the ship. But what they don’t find is an alien presence. So who―and where―are the Ramans?
Original Publication date 1973
Current Edition 2020
Publisher Harper Voyager
Language English
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0358380227
ISBN-13 : 978-0358380221