Rama II
Rama Series, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Toby Longworth
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By:
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Arthur C. Clarke
About this listen
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.
©1989 Arthur C. Clarkes & Gentry Lee (P)2014 Audible StudiosListeners also enjoyed...
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This was the best book I've listened to for a long time. I put it on at every opportunity because I wanted to know what happened next. The story is well-constructed and thought-provoking, and the characters are clearly and convincingly drawn. It combines mystery, intrigue, adventure and romance, and now that I have finished it I am keen to go on to the next one in the set.
Arthur C Clarke describes the interior of the Rama II spacecraft, but the concept is not easy to understand – if I were reading the book I would have paused to think, and made a drawing to help me! However, nothing is so outlandish as to be unbelievable, and I'm hoping that some things will be explained in the subsequent books. I would like to think that details have not been introduced only to be ignored or forgotten later.
Rama II is the second Rama book; the first was Rendezvous with Rama, which I had not read before reading Rama II. I have just listened to Rendezvous, for completeness, before writing this review, but it wasn't necessary for my understanding of the story.
The narration by Toby Longworth was good, with voices clearly fitting the description of the characters. Sometimes his pronunciation was not perfect and it should have been corrected (for example, the avians live underground and for some time I wasn't sure whether they lived in a layer or a lair). I noticed more editing errors than is usual in Audible books, with several sentences being read twice and one instance, I think, of a sentence being omitted. Even so, these did not detract from my enjoyment of the book.
Better than Rendezvous with Rama!
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The amount of time spent detailing innocuous details about character back stories really was almost too much. But I am glad I stayed the course as the second half of the book talks less about the character back stories and much more about the Ramans, their tech a d what/who they might be!
I only discovered halfway through that it was a joint venture so I can only hope the addition of Gentry Lee doesn't have the same impact on book 3 which I will continue with given how strongly this book finished. More of the second half please (and Rendezvous) from this point on please!
Very slow start
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His work is always so grounded in human personality that the science fiction can be as wild and imaginative as he likes it is still believable.
The Godfather of science fiction !
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Another Clarke classic
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Exploration of the Raman craft
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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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Overall a great listen I especially enjoyed the different voices used by the narrator. My only complaint would be this; how wasn’t it discovered pre-flight that the crew were such a bunch of maladjusted misfits hardly the Right Stuff for a mission like this!Can’t wait for the next book; The Garden of Rama
Very Enjoyable
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A poor sequel.
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Pants
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