The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact. It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973

Jeden z nejoriginálnějších SF cyklů se blíží svému rozuzlení. Nicol Wakefieldová, odsouzená k trestu smrti, prchá spolu se svou rodinou do oblasti záhadných mrakodrapů, kde se setkává s dalším druhem tajemných a nebezpečných mimozemských tvorů, s oktopavouky. V jejich společnosti právě probíhají zásadní změny a dostávají se do konfliktu s lidmi, zatím co se vesmírná loď blíží k místu velkého setkání a odhalení.

"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."; *Carl SaganNine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft; *to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong . . . and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter.Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman; *the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith; *streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . ."Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."; *Time"2010 is easily Clarkes' best book in over a decade."; *The San Diego Tribune