3.5 stars

Enjoyed this far more than the first time I read it, at that time I was only interested in reading another Rama book and not all the human intrigue stuff.

This time around I treated this as a novel by another writer borrowing the Rama background to write another story and in that setup it makes sense.

We still get the exploration part and learns a little more about Rama, but there is also a human story of incredible egomaniac behaviour, jeopardising the most important exploration of the human race for a broadcasting agreement and our heroine who uses her cultural and mythological background to make sense of Rama.

Unfortunately there’s also a strong religious theme, which put me a little off.

True to the fact that these novels are not true Clarke novels, there is a lot of unbelievable future facts about 2200, which seems a little odd given the novel is written in 1989.

The journalist uses a tape recorder to make recordings, they struggle to get radio coverage inside Rama etc.