![]() ![]() 75 years have passed before the events of Rama II, when a second massive cylinder is detected entering the solar system. It is strongly felt, however, that the Ramans do things in threes and another cylinder will be along before too long. ![]() Because this is hard sci-fi and constrained by the limits of human scientific achievement, we can’t just go chasing off after it, so Rama is left to drift off away from our sun towards destinations unknown. Rendezvous with Rama ended with the massive cylinder, which human beings have explored and found to contain an incredible but baffling ecosystem, drifting away out of the solar system. The movie version of Cradle never happened, possibly due to the development of the similarly-themed Sphere, but they did write it as a novel, sparking off a 4-novel collaboration between Clarke and Lee. By then, Clarke was working with scientist and screenwriter Gentry Lee, whom he had met whilst working on a screenplay for underwater aliens drama Cradle. The story of a massive, mysterious alien cylinder entering the solar system captured the imaginations of readers and earned Clarke both Hugo and Nebula awards, but it would be another 17 years before he wrote a sequel to the open-ended novel. In 1972, Arthur C Clarke wrote Rendezvous with Rama, which was an incredible success second only to the mighty 2001: A Space Odyssey in terms of popularity. ![]()
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