Rama II: The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee

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Book Review: I really enjoyed it, it isn't rubbish like everyone says!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Rama II begins with the announcement of the second Raman spacecraft, 70 years after the first. By then, the Great Chaos has struck, because mankind thought Rama II would appear not long after the first. Disaster struck, and the world lived in misery for years on end. But finally, Rama II has come, and this time, world's most gifted astronauts are off to rendezvous with the giant cylinder once again.
The first part is rather uninteresting. The character design of Lee has prevailed here, and the most important characters are being tracked to know more of their lives: The Italian reporter and femme fatale Francesca Sabatini, Afro-American life-science officer Nicole des Jardins (main character in all 3 books) and Technician and Christian Michael O'Toole. The Scientific Engineer Richard Wakefield is also very important, but you don't read anything about him. After that, Rama finally gets into the picture. You read a lot about the perils of Rama, adventures of Nicole des Jardins and how Nicole, Richard and Michael finally stay behind in Rama. This is where Garden of Rama gets involved. The trio sets off into space, not knowing where they are heading. Nicole and Richard get kids, and not a few also. Eventually, they get to the Node, a command centre of the Ramans. There, everyone except Michael and a daughter of Nicole goes back to Earth in the improved Rama to pick up 2000 humans so the Ramans can research their behaviour in their own "habitat". But eventually someone wants power, gets it, and the respect for Nicole and co. is gone. Nicole is held prison, Richard meets avians, and in "Rama revealed" the whole family gets to meet the octospiders, whoohoo! War is in Rama, because the power-wanter doesn't know what to do, and it ends with the interference of the Ramans, and a dying Nicole (age: somewhere in the 80 years) saying: "I understand, and understanding is happiness".

Overall, a lot of sci-fi is in it, and I'm sure most people will like it. All the reviewers here just had too high expectations.

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