Rendezvous with rama

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JIM BURNS - Alien Landscape - Illustration for Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke - item by lcart3.narod

Jimmy Pak, stranded on the far side of the cylindrical sea, runs into a biological robot, or Biot, as Clarke called them. The giant spikes, the drive of Rama, hang in the sky, bolts of electricity still playing around them. Jimmy's crashed sky bike can be seen in the distance, in the process of being dismantled by other Biots. It occurs to me the Rendevous with Rama is the only science fiction novel I know that has a cyclist as hero, albeit a sky cyclist.

Inside RAMA, a self contained combination Cylinder World and Spaceship by Arthur C. Clarke. #RendezvousWithRAMA #ArthurCClarke #SpaceShipWorld

As illustrator usually I creates artworks for book covers or magazines on demand, but I long toyed with the idea to create illustrations of classic science fiction novels to put on the royalty free market, as usual for my spare pruduction. Here's the cover of the novel Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972. I hope you will like it! :) Totally rendered in Bryce 7, postwork with Photoshop 7 and Dynamic-Photo HDR. The original file is 2545x3579 pixels. Luca Ole...

Rendezvous with Rama

I just finished reading Arthur C. Clarke's 'Rendezvous with Rama' and had to illustrate one of the moments from it. The novel really walks the line well between eeriness and wonder, which I have a lot of respect for. I intended this to be a fast job, as I didn't know how much of a gap I would have between paid projects, so I kept this loose and painterly which I feel was the right choice given the subject and mood.