He sets off from the hub, weightless, with the intent to ride along the axis the entire length of Rama. One character has a flying contraption with him. The characters in the book enter Rama through an air lock at the hub at one end of the cylinder's central axis, where they are weightless they then descend a series of ladders and stairs, getting heavier as they go, until they reach full weight at the surface.
Rama is a 50 km long, 16 km diameter cylindrical alien artifact that is rotating fast enough to provide a 0.6G artificial gravity on its long inner surface.
Literary Gathering: The Songs Of Distance Earth by Arthur C.I'm currently reading Arthur Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.
Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King’s College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. It concerns the lures and limitations of knowledge, the destiny of mankind, and the fate of the universe».Īrthur C. Clarke is played out on a much larger canvas. Gerald Jones of the New York Times praised its scope and its exploration of philosophical dilemmas: «The drama that interests Mr. The Songs of Distant Earth explores both apocalyptic and utopian ideas, as well as the effects of long-term interstellar space travel and extra-terrestrial life. The novel tells the story of a utopian human colony in the far future that is visited by travellers from a doomed Earth, as the Sun has gone nova. Clarke claimed that it was his own favourite among his novels. The Songs of Distant Earth was first published in 1986 based on his short story of the same title, which had been published in 1958. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection.
Literary Gathering about the novel The Songs Of Distant Earthby Arthur C.
0 kommentar(er)
