He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008. He shared an OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, The Sentinel. There is running almost silently through Rendezvous with Rama a rendezvous with our near-future rather than the perhaps quite-distant-future of first contact with an alien life form whose mysteries we cannot penetrate. 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. And that something else is becoming with every passing day more relevant to society than the awesome wonders of the inexplicable. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first-class honours from King’s College, London. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. And maybe now, with the arrival of Rama II, some of the questions posed by Rama will at last be answered.Īrthur C. At one point, David Fincher was attached to direct, before moving. Sixty-six years later, a second approaching spacecraft was detected four years on, the Ramans are definitely returning. Rendezvous with Rama has been in development limbo since the early 2000s, with the book under option for more than 20 years. Rendezvous with Rama (1973) is the first in a series of science fiction novels by British author Sir Arthur C. 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.… In 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system. The sequel to Rendezvous with Rama: the only SF novel to sweep all SF awards and one of the best sellers of all time.
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