Rendezvous with Rama
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Rendezvous with Rama
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
|---|---|
| Published | 1973 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A fifty-kilometre cylinder enters the solar system, a crew is scrambled to intercept it before it swings past the Sun, and the whole novel is the survey — a Hugo, Nebula and Campbell winner about reverse-engineering an undocumented system under a hard deadline, which is exactly why infrastructure people like it. |
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, A tier in its sci-fi classics, one of three Clarke titles picked out of a very large bibliography, alongside 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Fountains of Paradise.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Arthur C. Clarke — the author.
- Engineering — the book is a survey report with a plot; the interest is all in the artefact’s design.
- 2001 — A Space Odyssey — the same premise of an artefact that refuses to explain itself, handled differently.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
- a16z — the firm whose infra team curates the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.