Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke




synopsis from back cover...
In the year 2130, a strange object is discovered, hurtling through space on what could be a collision course with Earth.

What is it?

Where did it come from?

And, most important, what does it want?

Those are the questions scientists on Earth have to answer - and fast - if Mankind is going to be ready for its first encounter with an alien intelligence!


scanned from an ad for the Rama cd-rom, and taken from an issue of Science Fiction Age...
Here's an image of the inside-out world of Rama! If Rama were a football, you'd be at one of the ends, looking across at the other end. (Of course, the ends of Rama aren't quite as pointy as a football.)


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