Status Updates From Setkání s Rámou (Ráma, #1)

Politics and human foolishness, not to mention Human paranoia on display.

The aliveness of the organic robots which are disassembled when damaged reminds me of the strange creatures depicted in “A Martian Odyssey" the science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the July 1934 issue of “Wonder Stories.” He depicted life forms completely without any sense of self preservation.

The organic’s complete dismissal of the human who’s machine It had dissected and disposed of is a micro-view of the aliens concerns about the humans who had penetrated their habitat.

The one crewman using a sky bike suddenly realizing his peril from static electricity is well written and filled with tension!

The alien grandeur of Rama is a real credit to the imagination of author C Clark. If made into a film some of these scenes would give one chills much like what one might feel with “Forbidden Planet” when the expanse of the great machine is revealed, or what was attempted to try and portray with Viger in “Star Trek the motion Picture.”