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You may want to read Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. That's basically the plot.
by Erik816 6y ago
You may want to read Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. That's basically the plot.
- walrus01 6y agoAs I recall the first two books are pretty good, after that the novel series kind of goes off the rails.
- interfixus 6y agoAs I recall, the original novel is vintage Clarke of the better kind, and then the rest are [co-]authored by some entity named Gentry Lee and basically unreadable.
- walrus01 6y agoYou are right... In this case I think it might be a good example of how serious scientists are not always the best fiction writers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry_Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry_Lee
- interfixus 6y agoShame on me. I never knew, and I never bothered to look it up.
- walrus01 6y agoIt is not an unreasonable assumption to make, there are a lot of novel series where the 3rd, 4th, 5th novels are ghostwritten by some third party hired by a publishing company that owns the rights, to cash in on a well known novel's name and author.
- avian 6y agoThe first book is certainly very different from the rest. If not for other reasons then simply because it is a self-standing short novel while later books tell a continuous story spanning three books, with each book being about 2-3 times longer than the first one. Calling them unreadable is a bit harsh though. I still found them to be good sci-fi reading.