It has been a while since I last read science fiction and it was overdue. What better way to continue than to pick a classic by Clarke, one of the most well known science and science fiction authors. Author of the very famous 2001.

Rama is the name of an object that has just entered the solar system. It is huge, it weighs a lot and it will pass close by the sun. We have a chance of a rendezvous if we send one of our spaceships to greet it. But we know nothing of it, except that it is not natural.

Already at the first page I thought of Carl Sagan. I do not quite know why, perhaps the font and book's size was similar to the Sagan books I have read. Or maybe it was the language. Clarke writes in a very straight forward manner as do Sagan. Not much fluff. Scientific and accurate, very believable.

The book is a page turner. I kept coming back to the book at every free moment from the time I opened it until I had read the last page. So I can nothing but recommend it to any science fiction lover, but it does miss something. I missed a bit of what moved me with for example Enders Game. Or Dune. But I can not put my finger on what it is. Maybe it is the scientific language, that somehow describes events from like an observer. I do not know. But even if it lacked something, all I know is that I could not stop reading it. And that must be a sign of an excellent book.