‘Rendezvous With Rama’ (1973) By Arthur C. Clarke: Denis Villeneuve’s Next Sci-Fi Film?
Three is a mysterious number
“But at least we have answered one ancient question. We are not alone. The stars will never again be the same to us.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
A man ahead of his time? No. A writer ahead of his time? Yes. Arthur C. Clarke was a man of his time who helped create the space age by inventing devices to help move humanity into its next voyage of discovery beyond the Earth where his prophetic imagination would give us mysteries of transcendence both metaphysical and technological.
Clarke’s science and fiction were ahead of his time creating stories of alien contact that were in the science faultless and presented the dilemmas of First Contact in a scenario we once took for granted until the 3 Body Problem irrevocably reconfigured the trope of human transcendence and deliverance.
Clarke and the generation who put a man on the moon were full of homocentric optimism when anything seemed possible and NASA planned to have a man on Mars in 1980. That was until the money ran out and Russia or America could no longer finance the ‘Space Race’.
In Rendezvous with Rama published in 1973 after huge success with 2001: A Space Odyssey both book and then…
