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Rama II

Rama Series, Book 2

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Rama II

By: Arthur C. Clarke
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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The sequel to Rendezvous with Rama: the only SF novel to sweep all SF awards and one of the best sellers of all time.

In 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it revealed many wonders to mankind; but most of its mysteries remained unsolved.…

Sixty-six years later, a second approaching spacecraft was detected; four years on, the Ramans are definitely returning. But this time, Earth is ready. And maybe now, with the arrival of Rama II, some of the questions posed by Rama will at last be answered.

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first-class honours from King's College, London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won Kalinga Prize, The Aviation Space-Writers' Prize, and The Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He shared an OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, The Sentinel. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.

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A good story set some 70 years after the first Rama story so has completely different characters.
I wouldn't say this is a great story, but it is a good story with several parts that read more like Gentry Lee than typical Arthur C Clarke. A lot of background information, future history if you like trying to set the scene but padding it out more than adding to it.
So obviously a lead in story to Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed which compete the cycle.
Worth a listen though with good narration.
Not my favourite by any stretch of the imagination but one I could listen to again.

Good follow up setting scene for rest of story

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it was OK, but the switch to concentrating on the people rather than the mysteries of rama was a shame, especially as the characters were quite dull and predictable with little depth. will still probably listen to the next

much weaker than the original rama

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but alas, still a drag. there was more content that actually felt engaging but it was still lacking and broken up by long slogs of tiresome exposition. characters were a little better but not by much won't try the third

not as bad as the first

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The beginning is bad, really bad, some characters are so poor I almost stopped reading but as soon as they get back on Rama the story improves. Still very interesting but not the masterpiece book 1 was. having said that I am still looking forward to book 3

Not as good as book 1

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Slow boring start but picks up well, initial emphasis on history is overdone and plodding.

slow start

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