Rendezvous with rama the movie promises to be a hard science fiction film filled with tension, action, thrills and above all else, a profound sense of wonder. Tiffany lam october 3, 2012 science fiction literature summary. It just needs a fair budget and the right director. Read hundreds of free scifi stories from asimov, lovecraft.
It opens with the discovery, via a fictional program to watch for asteroids that might collide with the earth, of an object coming from outside the solar system that appears to be artificial. Rama is a puzzlesolving adventure game based on arthur c. Rendezvous with rama has inspired other media beyond books and movies. It would make an awesome, intriguing and aweinspiring scifi film, like 2001. Characters are only given cursory backstories and no meat whatsoever. Two centuries from now, scientists detect a 10 trillion ton object, nicknamed rama, hurtling through earths solar system at an unfathomable speed. Clarke was the 1973 nebula award winner and 1974 hugo award winner for best novel. Though he was not credited on the screenplay, clarke corresponded with filmmaker peter hyams over the film.
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the solar system, a perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artifact. Rendezvous with rama is an interactive fiction computer game with graphics published by. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. Everything you need to know about rendezvous with rama movie. Even before that, in 1982 the classic text adventure company infocom made a text adventure called starcross that is clearly inspired by the novel. It is a cylinder world with an interior environment consisting of cities and an icy circular ocean. Released in 1985 on dos, its still available and playable with some tinkering. In the hands of fincher, this promises to be an absolutely amazing scifi picture, one that will live up to fans of clarkes novel as well as audiences who dont know who the hell he is. After deploying a space probe, our deepest fears and highest hopes are confirmed. Rendezvous with rama a behind the scenes production film. Clarkes wonderful novel, rendezvous with rama, hasnt been made into a movie yet. Set in the 2s, the story involves a 50kilometre 31 mi cylindrical alien starship. The reason, however, that rendezvous with rama is so revered is because it contains the most compelling mystery of any sciencefiction novel ever.
Effi briest fontane horbuch deutsch full audio book german. Set in the 2s, the story involves a 50by20kilometre 31 by 12 mi cylindrical alien starship that enters the solar system. So he must land at the centre of the north end or at the centre of the south end. Rendezvous with rama after a disaster caused by a meteorite, the government sets up a space guard system, as an early warning, to detect asteroids and other objects. Clarke published rendezvous with rama, a very well received first contact story that told the tale of a science team venturing inside an alien spacecraft passing through our solar system. Rendezvous with rama chapter 116 tiffany lam october 3. To summarise the plot, and alien object christened rama enters the solar system and mankind dispatches the spaceship endeavour to investigate. Rendezvous with rama arthur c clarke audiobook duration. Fiction, future in literature, hugo award winner, nebula award winner, rama imaginary space vehicle, science fiction, award. German translation of rendezvous collins englishgerman. Aug 05, 2017 rendezvous with rama is a science fiction novel by british writer arthur c. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws.
Written at a time when clarke was still enjoying the rush of success from 2001. Contributions by james white, theodore sturgeon, harlan ellison, and others. Intermediate level points for understanding answer key macmillan guided readers moderns rendezvous with rama 3 this page has been downloaded from it is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. After an uncatalogued giant asteroid is discovered approaching earth, scientists soon realize that it is in reality an alien starship. The novel underlines the difficulties encountered by the explorers as they try to adapt to an. Clarke and based upon his science fiction novel rendezvous with rama.
Several video game adaptations of the book were made in 1983 and 1996. Rendezvous with rama arthur c clarke audiobook youtube. Set in the 2s, the story involves a 50kilometre 31 mi cylindrical alien starship that enters earths solar system. The ambitious rama project was started in the late 70s, but was never completed, as cinema group four dissolved. As commander of the spaceship endeavor, and being the nearest to the gargantuan ship. The north end of rama is in the full light of the sun, so norton is able to see what he is doing when he lands. Rendezvous with rama a behind the scenes production film on. May 17, 2017 rendezvous with rama is a book with, maybe, the least amount of character development ive ever seen in a novel. Rendezvous with rama by ruth garbus, released 04 january 2010 1. An alltime science fiction classic, rendezvous with rama is also one of clarkes best novelsit won the campbell, hugo, jupiter, and nebula awards. Rama is the spaceship from the book by arthur c clarke.
Rendezvous with rama rama series book 1 kindle edition by clarke, arthur c download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Rendezvous with rama is a science fiction novel by british writer arthur c. The novel underlines the difficulties encountered by the explorers as they try to adapt to an environment that obeys the rules of physics in a. If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
Dec 27, 2019 dutch first met fay in frankfurt, west germany in the mid1970s. A space odyssey, this novel carries a similar, though markedly less metaphysical, sense. While there are certainly parallels between clarke and nivens takes on the big dumb object trope, i felt that rendezvous with rama came closer to capturing the sense of wonderment and excitement that would come with probing and exploring the mysteries of an alien species, as well as getting the reader involved. Its an adventure game, set in an interactive fiction, scifi futuristic, licensed title and puzzle elements themes and it was released on commodore 64 and apple ii as well. Jan 02, 2018 as for rendezvous with rama, i enjoyed the jaunt across a strange alien artifact of astonishing technology, possibly some alien escape pod that was to pass through sols solar system, which included one spacefaring civilization, earths, and then to vanish as suddenly as it appeared, headed on some strange mission already planned for it. Rendezvous with rama is a hard science fiction novel by arthur c.
The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called rama, disappears. Rendezvous with rama is not the first big dumb object science fiction novel, but its one of the most influential. Theres rendezvous with rama, then a related but really not very related trilogy of rama ii, the garden of rama and rama revealed. Put your abstract thinking caps on rama isnt for the mathematically challenged. Rendezvous with rama npr coverage of rendezvous with rama by arthur c. He continued to write throughout the 1970s his works included the novel rendezvous with rama, and in 1982 wrote a sequel to 2001 entitled 2010. Talking to collider whilst promoting the dvd release of the social network, fincher spilt the beans on his future projects. Clarke and codesigned by the author himself with gentry lee, rama casts you as a crew member of the exploration team sent to explore the mysterious alien object codenamed rama thats orbiting earth. Report on thailands king vajiralongkorn on the nightly german news show taff, broadcast on the prosieben channel on april 27. They named it 31439 later renaming it rama, a believed asteroid, they later realized that it had an odd path and a massive size. Clarkes classic science fiction novel rendezvous with rama. Feb 10, 2011 rendezvous with rama does present a few problems although most of them just add to the fun. David fincher has spoken about a number of upcoming projects, including the girl with the dragon tattoo, rendezvous with rama and 20,000 leauges under the sea. Everything you need to know about rendezvous with rama.
A team of astronauts is sent on a mission to explore a giant interstellar spaceship hurtling toward the sun. Over 100,000 german translations of english words and phrases. Clarke recounts the mission of the spaceship endeavour and its staff as it completes an exploratory mission on an alien space vessel traveling though the solar system. The multiawardwinning sf masterpiece from one of the greatest sf writers of all time rama is a vast alien. Rendezvous with rama project gutenberg selfpublishing.
Two productions were photographed simultaneously, one version filmed in 16mm bw, and my production which was shot on kodachrome super 8 film stock. There is no villain well, not exactly, and a lot of the book is spent with not much happening. After deploying a space probe, our deepest fears and highest hopes. A great adaptation of classic scifi series by arthur c. An indisputable sf classic that took home no fewer than five awards among them the hugo, nebula, campbell, and jupiter as the best novel of its year, rendezvous with rama is hard science fiction at its most fundamentally pure. Visually and gameplaywise, it mostly follows the template of myst, consisting of prerendered backgrounds and live action scenes, and focusing almost entirely on complex logic puzzles. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. Included here is a sample schematic and world save for the prototype cylinder world in minecraft. Aug 12, 2011 the closest available ship rushes to rendezvous so as to have a quick study before it gets too close to the sun. In starcross, a black hole miner comes across an anomaly that turns out to be a massive alien spacecraft. Rendezvous with rama by arthur c clarke read by peter gannon after an asteroid falls in northeast italy in 2077, creating a major disaster, the government of earth sets up the spaceguard system as an early warning of arrivals from deep space.
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