The team aboard spaceship Endeavour discovers a world whose physical characteristics are very different from that which prevails elsewhere in the universe and where the laws of physics apply to a self-enclosed, self-sufficient cylindrical world.Īt first, the world of Rama seems to have been either asleep or dead for a million years as it drifted through space. A team of explorers is then sent on a mission to land on the object and explore its content. The probe identifies Rama as an artificial, metallic object the size of a small meteorite, perfectly cylindrical and apparently inactive. The object is named Rama and scientists send a probe near the object. The story concentrates on Bill Norton's character, the commander of the spaceship Endeavour, and the technical problems he faces as he tries to gather information and understand the world of Rama.ĭuring the last quarter of the 22nd century, mankind spotted an unknown and unexpected space object traveling across the path of the planets toward the Sun. The novel underlines the difficulties encountered by the explorers as they try to adapt to an environment that obeys the rules of physics in a place that is very different from the one found on Earth. Clarke recounts the mission of the spaceship Endeavour and its staff as it completes an exploratory mission on an alien space vessel traveling though the solar system.
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