IвЂ™m not on social media.The sketches contained in this book are from the two Star Trek Movies (wikipedia link), Generations and First Contact. Rendezvous with Rama is fast-moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. RamaвЂ™s unsolved mysteries are tantalizing indeed. But who, and where, are the Ramans, and what do they want with humans? Perhaps the answer lies with the busily working biots, or the sealed-off buildings, or the inaccessible вЂњsouthernвЂќ half of the enormous cylinder. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, RamaвЂ™s secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization.

The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicleвЂ™s puzzles. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears.

The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.ДЄn uncontested sci-fi classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of ClarkeвЂ™s best novels, winning the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards.ДЄ huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories.

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. ItвЂ™s possible to argue that Stanislaw Lem is the best science fiction writer ever, and Solaris is his most famous book. LemвЂ™s humans are some of the best in science fiction as well: they screw up, are late, fail to see the whole picture, act irrationally, and even the brightest of them can be swayed by vanity and pride. Communication with them is often impossible, and the humans that attempt to interact with them are well-intentioned but unsuccessful. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that heвЂ™ll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.ДЄuthor Stanislaw Lem has the best aliens, mostly because he makes them completely and profoundly, well, alien. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a вЂњfull empty,вЂќ something goes wrong. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market made up of alien products. Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. Roadside Picnic takes place in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event (called the Visitation) which simultaneously took place in half a dozen separate locations around Earth for a two-day period. The original Russian-language novel was finally published in the 1990s. Heavily censored versions published between 19 significantly departed from the original version written by the authors. Roadside Picnic was refused publication in book form in the Soviet Union for eight years due to government censorship and numerous delays.

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