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Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel of hard sci-fi.
An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching...
2) Rama II
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In the sequel to the multi-award winning sci-fi novel Rama, a second Raman spaceship enters our solar system.
Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed-or had existed-elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us.
A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous...
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The third novel in the Rama series from the legendary "colossus of science fiction" and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey ( The New Yorker ). Continuing from the end of Rama II three astronauts -- Nicole, Richard, and Michael -- remain trapped in a labyrinthine alien spaceship bound for deep space. Creating the best semblance of a life they can, Nicole bears five children and they spend the next twelve years raising them aboard the ship. Eventually,...
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In the New York Times-bestselling conclusion to the award-winning Rama series, a human colony aboard Rama III approaches the ultimate confrontation.
Two thousand humans have been trapped on the enormous spaceship Rama III, bound for the Raman Node orbiting Sirius. As they hurtle through interstellar space, the human population has formed a violent authoritarian society-one that has imprisoned astronaut Nicole Wakefield. After a daring escape with...
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"No es fácil vivir con un pájaro dentro del pecho". Así inicia Alas como cuchillos, una historia sobre el dolor de la pérdida, los cambios y transiciones que implica la adolescencia y cómo sería vivir con un mirlo negro instalado entre las costillas. Cuando Alonso, el protagonista, siente que la vida ya no puede ponerse más difícil, una extraña compañía lo obliga a indagar qué pasa dentro de sí, qué es eso que duele o molesta tanto....
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En México el panorama no es alentador. Parecería que autoridades y criminales son dos caras de la misma moneda, el tipo de cambio: el miedo. El médico, protagonista de esta historia, nos recuerda que hay otras opciones además de callar o huir y que se puede y se debe luchar en contra de la injusticia y el abuso.
The scenery in Mexico isn't very, encouraging, authorities and criminals appear as the two faces of the same coin whose exchange rate...
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THE RAMA TRILOGY
Danny Hanuman and the Quest for the Ancient Sea-kings
As yet another archaeologist mysteriously disappears, teen Danny Hanuman and his friends find themselves caught up in a worldwide plot to destroy
the evidence of the ancient Sea Kings.
With the evil General Maricha stalking their every move, Rama must urgently complete Danny's Kalari warrior training for his own protection.
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