The Garden of Rama

Rama Series, Book 3

By: Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee

Narrated by: Toby Longworth, Louise Jameson

In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge, but empty - apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next unknown destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes.

Eighty years later the second alien craft arrived in the solar system. This time, Earth had been waiting. Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced; and at the end of it may lie the truth about Rama.

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won Kalinga Prize, The Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.

©1991 Arthur C. Clarkes & Gentry Lee (P)2014 Audible Studios

Great book, narrator change after 1st 3rd

Great book and story. First narrator playing Nicole's part for the first section of the book may be an acquired taste and seems to narrate in a way that is inconsistent with and flattens the personality of Nicole. But persevere as this narrator is only for part of the book and our original narrator returns for the remainder.