Arthur C. Clarke

Rendezvous with Rama

CA$120

Illustrated by Matt Griffin

Introduced By John Clute

Space just got stranger with Arthur C. Clarke’s science-fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama. For this exquisite illustrated Folio edition, novelist John Clute provides an introduction celebrating the author’s remarkable imagination.

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Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingFull bound in printed and blocked cloth
Die-cut slipcase

Dimensions9½ inchesx 6¼ inches

FontSet in Cartier with Great Lakes as display

Pages248 pages

AuthorArthur C. Clarke

Illustrated byMatt Griffin

IllustrationIntegrated title page illustration and 5 full page colour illustrations

Publication Date06/05/2020

Editor's Notes

After millennia spent wondering if mankind will ever explore alien worlds, an alien world has come to us … Arthur C. Clarke was one of the great masters of the Golden Age of science fiction, and his work – including the groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey – changed the landscape of the genre for generations. Winning multiple awards, Rendezvous with Rama is one of his most celebrated novels, examining the key questions of humanity’s place in the universe with Clarke’s trademark imagination and scientific rigour. For this illustrated edition, artist Matt Griffin has created a series of dreamy sci-fi visuals washed in saturated bursts of colour, and a magnificent greyscale image of the cityscape of ‘New York’. Rendezvous with Rama is an essential addition to Folio’s acclaimed science-fiction collection.

Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. Volunteering for RAF service in 1941, Clarke worked on radar systems during the Second World War, and published an influential paper in 1945 which sketched the potential for orbital communication satellites. His passionate interest in science was allied with an early facility for fiction writing, and he went on to write more than 70 books, including Childhood’s End (1967; Folio Society 2023), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Folio Society 2016), Rendezvous with Rama (1973; Folio Society 2020), Rama II (1989), The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1991) and The Garden of Rama (1991). He became the world’s foremost science-fiction writer and won numerous international awards including the Hugo and Nebula. In 1968 he shared an Academy Award nomination for his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was awarded a knighthood in 1998 and died in 2008 in his adopted home of Sri Lanka.

John Clute was born in 1940 in Toronto, Canada, but has lived and worked in London since 1969. He began writing SF reviews and criticism in the early 1960s; the eighth volume collecting this work is Sticking to the End (2020). As co-editor and now main contributor, he has been involved in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction since its first print edition in 1979; the online version, eight times the length of the original, continues to expand. His second novel, Appleseed (2001), is SF. He has won various awards, including several Hugos, for his work. The 12,000 volume Clute Library of Science Fiction is now owned and curated by the Telluride Institute in Telluride, Colorado.

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