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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)
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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.
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.
The best take-away of the entire series is that we are not the biggest, best nor the