by Arthur C. Clarke
“Ever been laid, boy?” Raman Family Robinson and it reads like one of the biots wrote it. Lee is now two books into doing to Clarke’s ‘Rama’ exactly what he condemns his characters for doing and irony isn’t in his dictionary. Bless him, at one point in the middle of a wedding scene straight out of ‘...
If RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA was an episode of star trek, complete with dashing American captain and multiethnic crew, all phds and astrophysicists, and RAMA II was the inevitable written for money followup, GARDEN OF RAMA was the third time charm, the boozy socially complex teardown of all those way too...