![]() ![]() It is named Rama after the Hindu god, and an uncrewed space probe dubbed Sita is launched from the Mars moon Phobos to intercept and photograph it. The astronomers' interest is further piqued when they realise the asteroid has an extremely rapid rotation period of four minutes and is exceptionally large. Its speed (100,000 km/h – 62,150 m/h) and the angle of its trajectory clearly indicate it is not on a long orbit around the sun, but is an interstellar object. ![]() It is detected by astronomers in the year 2131 while it is still outside the orbit of Jupiter. The "Rama" of the title is an alien starship weighing at least ten trillion tons, initially mistaken for an asteroid categorised as "31/439". The concept was later extended with several sequels, written by Clarke and Gentry Lee.Īfter an asteroid falls in Northeast Italy on 11 September 2077, creating a major disaster, the government of Earth sets up the Spaceguard system as an early warning of arrivals from deep space. ![]() The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula awards upon its release, and is regarded as one of the cornerstones in Clarke's bibliography. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-by-20-kilometre (31 by 12 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System. Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, John W. ![]()
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As the distance from that first novel has grown, the myth has only expanded: in 2012, PBS’s Idea Channel declared that Gibson “had a better batting average than Nostradamus” and had “predicted the Internet.” (In fact, the Internet predated “Neuromancer” by years, and never much resembled that novel’s vision of a “consensual hallucination … lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind.”) Gibson’s own repeated admonitions that “science fiction is never about the future” and that “this whole idea of the predictive capacity of S.F. ![]() The myth of the prophet William Gibson was born in the early nineteen-eighties, with the wild success of Gibson’s début novel, “Neuromancer,” and the stories collected in “Burning Chrome”: he was heralded as a “cyberpunk noir-prophet,” the “prophet of the information age” who coined the word “cyberspace” while still banging away on a typewriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The concepts presented in his book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, have spread well beyond the geographic boundaries of North America and beyond the field of academic social psychology into the areas of business, health, and politics. ![]() Over the course of the last four decades, Robert Cialdini's work has helped spark an intellectual revolution in which social psychological ideas have become increasingly influential. 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