+1 to Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. It is absolutely phenomenal "hard sci-fi" with coherent science and a very cool story. They were going to make

+1 to Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. It is absolutely phenomenal "hard sci-fi" with coherent science and a very cool story. They were going to make a film adaptation of this book, with Morgan Freeman as a main actor and everything. The scope of the scenes in the story however were so large that even with Intel Corp with technology onboard, they couldn't make them. Maybe nowadays it would be easier to make. http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/morgan-freeman-discusses-why-he-keeps-trying-to-get-rendezvous-with-rama-made http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/morgan-freeman-discuss...