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Barcelona B de Books (Ediciones B) 2014
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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:In the New York Times�??bestselling conclusion to the award-winning Rama series, a human colony aboard Rama III approaches the ultimate confrontation. Two thousand humans have been trapped on the enormous spaceship Rama III, bound for the Raman Node orbiting Sirius. As they hurtle through interstellar space, the human population has formed a violent authoritarian society�??one that has imprisoned astronaut Nicole Wakefield. After a daring escape with help from her husband Richard, the Wakefields flee into the labyrinthine bowels of the ship, where they find themselves in the domain of the octospiders�??technologically advanced beings that may be friend or foe. As the human colony pursues the Wakefields, the situation aboard Rama III approaches all-out war. But Rama's Nodal intelligence is always watching . . . Written by Clarke's longtime collaborator Gentry Lee, Rama Revealed marks the climax of the popular and critically acclaimed Rama series�??in which humans finally encounter the advanced alien intelligences behind the vast and mysterious… (more)
Media reviews
Only readers who are genuinely curious about the nature of the Rama enterprise and the mysterious intelligences behind it will find reason to struggle through this inert narrative.
User reviews
LibraryThing member cbradley
How do you ruin a great idea? Find another author, destroy the original idea, turn it into a social commentary that seems completely out of place, and wrap all these things into two novels. This is what the end to the Rama series seems like. What started as a great and wonderfully original idea,
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turned into something that was at best comically bad and at worst a disgrace to the wonderful name of Arthur Clarke. Rama Revealed was the nail in the coffin of the once great Rendezvous with Rama. I can still read Rendezvous with the same joy that I did originally, but I know that in the end there is no wonderful sequel, just these three stories that seem lost and out of place. Show Less
LibraryThing member alv
Interesting sci-fi scenery. Slow, artificial, too american-happy-family dialogues, too sentimental also. Too much religious crap at the end.
LibraryThing member RobertDay
My earlier comments on 'Rama II' apply here; once again, despite the extreme length and tediousness of this novel, I found myself identifying with the characters, much to my surprise. Indeed, towards the end of the book, when the main protagonist knows she will face her inevitable death on the
But not too strongly. It is a shaggy God story; we are promised revelations and none arrive; and the journey to get to this point has been so very, very long.
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morrow, and her handicapped son asks her to 'tuck me up in bed once more, the way you did when I was a child', I wept for the awful sense of impending loss in that exchange, and that is why I shall defend this book.But not too strongly. It is a shaggy God story; we are promised revelations and none arrive; and the journey to get to this point has been so very, very long.
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LibraryThing member jimroberts
From Rama II to Garden of Rama to Rama Revealed, it just gets worse. Only an incorrigible optimist (like me) could read them all. If you haven't bought it, spend the money on beer, give it to a beggar, whatever. If you have it, don't waste your time reading it: do something useful, or watch Plan 9
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LibraryThing member Karlstar
I loved Rendevous With Rama, and this one is good, but not as good. The giant alien spaceship with its human tag along passengers is still going somewhere, for some reason. The passengers try to figure out how to get along with the aliens aboard, and how to relate to the giant spaceship/world.
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Still exciting and interesting. Show Less
LibraryThing member JonathanGorman
Eh. The first book of the series was nice, short and sweet and left me wanting more. The second book (Rama II) had some really interesting characters and settings.
However, Gardens of Rama and this book both felt long and fell short of expectations. There were some interesting parts, but it felt
The occurrences on the colonies also felt like a bit of a forced morality play.
Enough compelling stuff that I kept reading, but I'm not really sure why. Some good characters, some boring ones. A nice feel of the main character getting older and older, which reminded me a bit of some older classics like Les Misérables.
I'd probably had liked this book more if I had been younger perhaps.
However, Gardens of Rama and this book both felt long and fell short of expectations. There were some interesting parts, but it felt
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like it was rushed and not edited heavily enough. There also were a number of loose threads that just never really felt explained. (Was the orange Avian a clone? Did the octospiders already collect them? Why were there humans in the zoo? Which was the species in danger of extinction (Humans? Sessiles?) The occurrences on the colonies also felt like a bit of a forced morality play.
Enough compelling stuff that I kept reading, but I'm not really sure why. Some good characters, some boring ones. A nice feel of the main character getting older and older, which reminded me a bit of some older classics like Les Misérables.
I'd probably had liked this book more if I had been younger perhaps.
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LibraryThing member TheCrow2
In the final book of the Clarke/Lee Rama Sage we finally know what's the plan behind the Rama, the Node, who are the masterminds behind it all... Too much religious crap indeed on the final pages IMHO and it's not worthy of the name and work of Clarke, but the whole story's interesting and exciting
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LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
This is not a good ending to an otherwise interesting series. The writing is flat, and the great Reveal is very disappointing. This a long way from the initial novel, and a good way below it.
LibraryThing member Razinha
Jeez, what a long book. And like many books of its size, it vacillated between "well, that's interesting" and "must force myself to finish". Yet, even the interesting parts were diminished by the preachy morality play. I repeat an earlier observance: men should not presume to write a story from a
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woman's perspective. At least not men hamstrung by pulp stereotyping. Show Less
LibraryThing member ajlewis2
It was a struggle to stick with this book, but I wanted to see how the story turned out. The series was disappointing. The last book was especially so.
LibraryThing member ikeman100
Good finale for the series. Better then book 3. My main complaint was the length. I was ready to finish before the book was. I almost quit the series after the "Garden of Rama" but this book was kept my interest.
The best take-away of the entire series is that we are not the biggest, best nor the
The best take-away of the entire series is that we are not the biggest, best nor the
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most intelligent beings in existence. We are mostly small and stupid and may eventually rely on the tolerance of those who are better. I other words, "humans need to park their egos". Show Less
LibraryThing member joerocklin
I thought the final installment in the Rama series was an improvement over the previous. If you can make it through "The Garden of Rama" then you will be treated with more science fiction as we meet alien species. It veers into an interesting social commentary when comparing the actions and
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behaviors of those species when compared to humans. Overall, it is a worthwhile end to the timeline - not altogether unpredictable, but a good story nonetheless. Show Less
LibraryThing member thanesh
Being the completist that I am I had to read this last and final installment of the RAMA series and after the Garden of Rama I was not hopeful that it was going to be a good ending. Boy was I surprised by how much I enjoyed the ending. Yes, there was a fair amount of fluff in the story with respect
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to reminiscing over what has happened in the past, but which great series does not do this, and it does have some appeal in terms of validating that we as the reader have walked the steps besides the book's protagonists and it also helps for folks who have questionable memories like I do. So yes, a whole lot of the book is devoted to the alien species and their biology's but this was also an enjoyable aspect of the story for me. The message was clear that the human race left to its own devices will self-implode and end in disaster and that humans may not be the most developed species in the universe and how would we deal with that eventuality. The ending does lead more to philosophical questions about the meaning and beginnings of life, the universe and yes off course GOD but there were only a few pages dedicated to this at the very ending. Overall, I believe that I enjoyed the Rama series and I look forward to the movie which I believe is in development phase as I write this review. Show Less
LibraryThing member David_Fosco
The sad but epic conclusion to the Rama series did not disappoint.
Subjects
Awards
Locus Award (Nominee — Science Fiction Novel — 1995)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1993
ISBN
9788490198933