Garden of Rama - Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee

This story was fantastic.The story starts off with Nicole de Jardin's point-of-view. During this time, she gives birth to five children: Simone, Katie, Benjy, Patrick and Ellie. The only humans are Nicole and the children and Richard Wakefield (Simone, Katie and Ellie's father) and Micheal O'Toole (Benjy and Patrick's father). As Rama speeds towards the constellation Sirrus, they encounter many hardships, including mental-breakdown and Octospiders. As a thirteen year old child, I was astounded. Arthur is an awesome writer.It is a story that will make you think about your own life and ponder the path that you have chosen over the years. It will make you ...

I really enjoyed this book. In fact I started the Rama series here (perhaps not the best place to begin, midway through), and it hooked me. I liked the way the characters were written, and the diary style in the beginning. You can feel the loneliness that forces them to the actions that they undertake, and the exploration of their environment intrigues the reader. Gentry Lee and Clarke take the reader on a mystery tour around the local part of the galaxy, and show us how it affects one little human family. The mystery at the beginning of the book is finally resolved, and we learn the reason behind the Rama scheme. The ideas are concretely scifi, and keep you ...

Continuing on directly from 'Rama II', this is just as disappointing. The three cosmonauts who stayed on the Rama craft as it headed out of our Solar System at the end of 'Rama II' try to make their lives as tolerable as possible as the ship heads out towards Sirius. During the 12-year trip, Nicole des Jardins bears five children to the two men aboard the craft – General Michael O'Toole and scientist Richard Wakefield, before the craft arrives at "the Node", a space station at which the humans undergo various tests, before being returned to Earth on a refurbished Rama with space for 2,000 humans. The colony is established with ...