It immediately entered my list of favorite books of all time, and I’ve spent lots of time thinking about it for weeks after finishing it. There probably isn’t much that I can say about the novel that hasn’t been said elsewhere and more eloquently, but it is amazing. I should note, though, that it wasn’t Freeman’s enthusiasm that intrigued me as much as a variety of related internet comments that suggested that a good film adaptation of Rama was “impossible.” What qualities could make a story a classic book but also make it completely unsuitable (supposedly) for the big screen? I was curious, and reading a synopsis of Rama made me really intrigued. Clarke’s classic 1972 novel Rendezvous with Rama. Recently, though, my interest was piqued when I learned that actor Morgan Freeman has been trying for years, almost a decade, to make a film adaptation of Arthur C. I also have an instinctive aversion to “hard” science fiction, which focuses on scientific and technical detail. I’ve read very few of the works of the classic authors such as Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury*, and I have many boxes unchecked in my list of “must-read” science fiction novels. I must admit that I’ve never been a particularly avid reader of science fiction.
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