by Arthur C. Clarke<\/p>\n
My husband has been on a science fiction reading kick for awhile now. Apparently Clarke’s work is the thinking person’s science fiction – sci-fi for scientists. We had a volume of Clarke’s short stories along on our Hawaii trip and those were fun. BN recommended Rendezvous with Rama<\/em> as one of his favorites so I picked it up to read during Christmas break.<\/p>\n The book is fairly unique among novels that I’ve read. There isn’t any real character development – unless you consider Rama as a character: the enigmatic object traveling through space, too small to be a planet and too large to be a space ship. The plot consists of Rama coming alive, as observed by the astronauts sent from the United Planets to explore it. They are discovering a new world on a tight deadline, it’s on a collision course with the Sun. I found the description of the interior and landscape of Rama just fascinating – it’s a very imaginative concept and convincingly presented. I think Arthur C. Clarke could have written a much longer book (or even a series) with this as the starting material. But the spareness reinforces the enigma that Rama is and remains.<\/p>\n ——————————————<\/p>\n You think you might cross over And you know I’m fine And the public don’t dwell on my transmission The song maker says, “It ain’t so bad” From Spaceman<\/em> by The Killers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Arthur C. Clarke My husband has been on a science fiction reading kick for awhile now. Apparently Clarke’s work …<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
\nYou’d better look it over
\nBefore you make that leap<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBut I hear those voices at night
\nSometimes they justify my claim<\/em><\/p>\n
\n‘Cause it wasn’t televised
\nBut it was the turning point
\nOh what a lonely night<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe dream maker’s gonna make you mad
\nThe spaceman says “Everybody look down”
\nIt’s all in your mind<\/em><\/p>\n