I read this first in a collection of short stories, "a tale of ten worlds". This story stuck with me

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First comment, part 2.

How are there adds? How can I sleep with loud Temu adds every 15 minutes? Audiobooks aren't supposed to have adds.

Wow, the singer from Korn reading an Audiobook.

Really enjoyed the first 2 book this one is a bit rembeling but thank u for posting. I have read the the may be a move in the making

So sorry this is the end of Rama. It has changed my outlook on life. Thank you

I read this tale way back in 6th grade in an Arthur C. Clarke short story collection I received for Christmas, and it hasn't left me even after all these years until that memory spurred me to revisit it today. Knowing so much more about science & physics as an adult and better able to sense what breakthroughs Clarke is imagining, the battle scene is even more astonishing & awe-inspiring than it was then. I love the spiralling foreshadowing of Mt. Pico's ephemerality and then the storm of light beyond the horizon hinting at powers so fearsome they're deadly to even look upon, as if the science of weapons has wrapped all the way back around to the ancient curses of Medusa or the Ark of the Covenant. For obvious & perfectly legitimate semiotic reasons, space battles (especially in visual media) are typically envisaged on a more recognizably parseable human scale that smoothly conveys the events of the scene to a general audience without the need for quenching the excitement & tension with science lectures, using familiar weapons & tactics transposed into a starry sky and given a technological facelift, but this is truly a qualitatively new level of clash on the thrilling & staggering beyond-human scale of _Outer Space,_ as dazzling & unbelievable to us in our still frustratingly Earthbound time as supersonic fighters jousting with guided missiles across 50 miles or computerized cluster bombs piercing a whole platoon of tanks with molten metal darts would be in the Napoleonic era where common sense imagined futuristic air warfare as lines of musketeers wearing mechanical wings. Even some 70 years since its publication I don't think there's ever been anything like it in cinema-The closest I'm aware of is the work of Hideaki Anno in "Shin Godzilla" or "Neon Genesis Evangelion," the latter of which in the confrontation with the angel Ramiel also handily portrays such furious lances of energy erupting from featureless floating geometry to melt entire mountains like a power washer scattering mud, but even then it hardly approached this scale of world-reshaping ferocity, that not only destroys mountains but creates whole new ones from splashes of the liquified battlefield itself, and where a fortress isn't captured or toppled but sinks away to be entombed in bubbling lava because its walls of energy are stronger than the very foundations of the world it sits upon. I'd love to see someone take a crack at bringing this visually to life (Hideaki Anno would be perfect, actually), as exposition could be handled pretty naturally with cuts to the frantic command centers of the warships & fortress doing the work of the narrator, along with the two witnesses' warnings & exclamations to each other. Thank you for uploading this, it's great to visit this story again after all these years and take up new threads of thought about it.

hee hee, your British accent is hilarious, but you make it work by taking this seriously---great reading! You seem to have the pace of Clarke's narrative style just right.

Heck yeah

I almost lost this war because of your little romance. MOST EPIC LINE IN MOVIES EVER.

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I don't think Rama could have cooled to a temperature lower than the microwave background, approximately 3.7 degrees K above absolute zero.

It's a joy to hear a person reading this, instead of an AI. It's difficult to listen to AI reading, because they so often mispronounce words and names.

Rama sounds like Oumuamua. 👽

I don't think Paris is a true villain. More of a catastrophically idiotic selfish weasel who habitually makes bad life choices if what his brother said of him is true. Stealing Helen, knowing his actions would inflame Sparta and destroy his homeland. He initiated honorable combat with Menelaus for Helen then retreated like a coward when he got a real taste of pain. He then shoots Achillies out of pure revenge for the death of Hector despite his own cousin telling him not to with the most passionate energy imaginable. Completely ignoring the extreme lengths that his father Priam went to retrieve Hector's body. The meidiation and mutual respect built between the waring parties. Like bro, this dude should never be allowed to lead a people as king. The sword of Troy is far better off in the hands of the stable boy.

Hi there thank you for your great work Can you add the black company too It would be wonderful if you do so

The ocean is the ultimate solution!

Obligatory first comment.

Lee’s input was apparent. At first, annoyingly so but I resolved to appreciate the novel on its own terms rather and became engrossed. A good narration for a great story. Thanks!

Big Clark fan here! It’s different from Clark’s usual work but enjoyed it as well. Narration is fine. Thank you.

If you don't like this voice,go for Toby longworth's narration : kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHiZdpdjgrR_ntEsi=X3-G8S9R_1ijwu6D

Rendezvous with Rama was the book that got me started on this series. Author C Clark has always been a favorite of mine. His vision is still with us today.

‘Tis but a flesh wound

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I miss the old soundtrack, it was great although the director didn't like the bass bumps. It fully gived a bust of emotion to these scenes.

Many thanks. Fascinating and very disturbing. A magnificent insight into the amazing work of John Douglas and the mind of the BTK.

Wensday

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I really enjoyed Rendezvous With Rama and therefore immediately following I began Rama 2, what a huge disappointment, as good as that reader was this guy is a big let down. I am not about to listen 8 hours to his heavy inhales.

I’ve disliked Paris and Helen since I was a child, and still do today

Fascinating. Excellent reading. Many thanks . Massive respect to John🙏

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Book starts at 16.00

I just discovered Rendezvous with Rama a week ago. I finished it yesterday. And you've uploaded the sequel only 5 days ago, what fantastic odds!

They potrayed the mythical things into human perspection perfectly,this movie is a masterpice.

This was fun

Game over for Achilles. Hector is avenged by Paris.

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God, Legolas cant really missed

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Thanks for the upload, much appreciated 👍

Imagine the greatest warrior of the trojan war being killed by the biggest coward of that time 😅

I want a taste of what achilles tasted just sounds gay

paris being a coward... choose bow and arrow to kill Achilles from far away... got u need balls to face Achilles face to face, which obviously paris didn't have...

paris being a coward... choose bow and arrow to kill Achilles from far away... got u need balls to face Achilles face to face, which obviously paris didn't have...

Thumbnail is pants. Cmon like. Whassa spostabee?

i hated legolas in this scene