Matt (Fully supports developing sentient AGI)'s Reviews > Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama is more thrilling, unpredictable, and tightly written than I vaguely remember from my teens. It solidly stands the test of time far better than many other 50 year-old books. Characters are fairly shallow, mainly vehicles for the plot which is brisk and mainly a vehicle itself for ideas, hard SF and a sense of wonder in the unknown. It's clearly influenced by Solaris and Roadside Picnic in dropping humans deep into the unknowably alien.

Rama must have been a favorite of a young Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham (James S.A. Corey). The receipts for Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse series) are all here - Humanity has begun to spread into the solar system, an alien extra-solar object, the crew of a working ship are thrown into adventure, and rising political tensions between factions within our solar system.

5 Stars for a masterpiece of Hard Science Fiction.