Karen Burnham: I was trying to remember when I first (and last) read Rendezvous with Rama. How well do you think this book holds up, forty years after it was first published? How has your attitude toward it changed since you first read it (whether forty years ago or more recently)? Her critically acclaimed science fiction stories have been published in numerous venues, most recently at Tor.com, and several have been reprinted in Year's Best anthologies. Vandana Singh, a physics professor at a small and lively state university. He gibbers inanities as Robinson, an American critic who blogs at Marooned Off Vesta. He has reviewed SF&F for places like Vector and Arc, had about twenty short stories published and currently teaches media studies and public relations at Middlesex University. Martin McGrath writes a bit, shouts a bit, and thinks about stuff a bit. For more, see his website or follow him on Twitter. His fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Black Static. Vajra Chandrasekera, a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Professionally she worked for several years on NASA projects, and currently lives near Baltimore in the United States. Her book on the work of Greg Egan came out from University of Illinois Press in 2014. Her writing appears in venues such as Locus, NYRSF, , and Cascadia Subduction Zone. Karen Burnham, vocationally an electromagnetics engineer and avocationally a science fiction critic and book reviewer. First published in 1973, it went on to win the Nebula, Hugo, Locus and BSFA awards, among others, and is an acknowledged classic of the genre.

Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama, the story of an exploratory mission to an alien spacecraft (named “Rama” by human astronomers). This month sees a two-part discussion of Arthur C. July’s book will be The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, and other forthcoming discussions are listed here. Welcome to this month’s book club! On the fourth Monday of each month, we post a round-table discussion about a speculative work (or work of interest to readers of SF), and we invite you to join us for further conversation in the comments.

Rendezvous with rama first edition