As such, she deems them to be “biots.” Sergeant Pieter RousseauĮver since he was a six-year-old kid, Pieter Rousseau had been utterly obsessed and fascinated by lenses. Surgeon-Commander Ernst is the first to determine that the strange creatures aboard the Rama is a hybrid of biological matter and robotic technology. Laura ErnstĪs if often the case in space operas of this era in general-and those written by this author in particular-the most important female crew aboard the Endeavour is a doctor. Unfortunately, he eventually crash lands on an isolated region, suffers a concussion, and wakes up to see a creature that looks kind of like a crab doing a chop job on his bike.

This bit of smuggling will pay off later when he is charged with using it to access parts of the Rama spaceship that are otherwise impossible to penetrate. Jimmy Pak is member of the Endeavour crew who manages to secretly stow a low-gravity skybike aboard. Norton’s job aboard the Endeavour is simplicity itself: safely alight five-thousand tons of expensive spaceship technology on a giant spinning disc. Norton is Commander of the screw aboard the survey ship Endeavour which has been tasked to study Rama, the spaceship that Stenton knew was physically impossible to exist. Thank goodness, however, Stenton knew it was beyond absurd to imagine whatever it was could possibly be a spaceship. In fact, something unprecedented in the history of mankind. And as a result, he is the first to figure out that what was assumed to be a quite unusual asteroid approaching was actually, in fact, something even more unusual. Thanks to the failure of a capacitor costing no more than half a dollar, fifteen minutes of precious time with a two-hundred-meter reflecting telescope falls into Bill Stenton’s lap at the felicitous time imaginable. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.

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