Status Updates From Rendezvous Mit Übermorgen

The unscrupulous reporter Natasha who uses people and her own sexuality would not be in the first Rama. It’s like Star Trek returns with a dysfunctional crew!

The world of this novel is off center from the one depicted in “Rendezvous with Rama” The solar system economy has gone through several crashes and huge ecological disasters leading to the fall and rise of new political powers. This is constantly reminded to us by the fact that the astronauts in this novel are called cosmonauts. The US is now but a back burner and the Kennedy Space Center is now being rebuilt

Clarke’s description of a world-wide economic disaster in 2134 seems profoundly plausible. The crash also took down the planetary culture we saw in the first novel.