Updated review 8/4/2020 - rereading this still had a lot of allure to it, mostly in the back half of the book (front half of the book felt more dated with interpersonal drama and social commentary of the late 80's). Midway through this book I thought I'd be done with Rama...but now at the end of it I clearly must keep reading this series because it seems book 3 will be all about the Ramans and 3 humans on their stellar journey and I can't recall much about that!

Original review July 2020
Plowed through this series in high school, loved it...almost so I might go back and re-read now that I'm tripping across these again through Goodreads. Fun fact - I never put together back in the early 90's reading these that the first book was actually written when I was born in the 70's. Say what? (Although in my defense - the last book which triggered the full series read, WAS published in 1993.)