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After the anxiety of escaping from Rama, there is a moment where the commander thinks to himself that it’s time to return to “a normal family life“ of course, in the mind of the futurist artsy Clark a normal family life involve two wives on different planets giving birth, and him having an extra marital fling with his medical officer. No strings. It always comes down to lots of women in the 60s SF!
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Anderson Rearick III
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The feeling within the text as Rama begins to prepare for maneuvers and the lights start going out has all the tension one feels when a thunderstorm is coming. I am also reminded of Bilbo Baggins after they have found the door into the mountain and he is filled with anxiety with fear concerning the now awake dragon.
— 18 hours, 12 min ago
Anderson Rearick III
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Politics and human foolishness, not to mention Human paranoia on display.
— Aug 01, 2026 12:23PM
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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.
— Aug 01, 2026 12:01PM
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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.
— Aug 01, 2026 11:24AM
Anderson Rearick III
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The one crewman using a sky bike suddenly realizing his peril from static electricity is well written and filled with tension!
— Aug 01, 2026 11:11AM
Anderson Rearick III
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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.”
— Aug 01, 2026 11:04AM
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The idea that Rama might be either the Coming of Christ or the Judgment is bizarre, and I notice that there is no Orthodox representative of faith in the book.
— Jul 14, 2026 04:47PM
Anderson Rearick III
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Interesting how the humans who have colonized different worlds are portrayed. Mercury is tough but slightly paranoid. But they are right when they point out how dangerous such a super intelligence might be to the human race.
— Jul 14, 2026 04:19PM
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Reading about the storms caused by the thawing of the sea within Rama along with the stunning moment when the lights came on seemed to me to be something which a movie maker could just blow my socks off with.
— Jul 14, 2026 04:15PM
Anderson Rearick III
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Nice tie-in with Capt. Cooke the original explorer of “the endurance”. Also awesome to have a structure so vast it has its own internal weather.
— Jul 06, 2026 02:28PM