While some commentators at the time criticized the film's glacial pacing and inscrutable ending, the film has stood the test of time, frequently appearing on critics' best-of lists. The quintessential Clarke adaptation is, of course, Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood as Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, the crew of the Discovery, a spacecraft bound for Jupiter to investigate a mysterious black monolith orbiting the planet. While it's far too early to speculate about the beginnings of a Ramaverse, it is clear there is ample scope for expansion. The novel won a slew of awards on its publication, including science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award, in 1974, and several sequels followed in collaboration with American author Gentry Lee. If Clarke's somewhat thin characterization left something to be desired, the sheer visceral appeal of exploring a new world in the confines of a spaceship was alluring to sci-fi fans.
Related: Denis Villeneuve To Direct Rendezvous With Rama Adaptation On their arrival, the astronauts discover that Rama is an enormous alien spaceship in the shape of a cylinder, complete with a breathable atmosphere, land, and waterways inside.
Set in the early twenty-second century, the film concerns the efforts of astronauts to intercept Rama, a mysterious, cigar-shaped object hurtling towards the inner Solar System. If it never quite achieves the heights of 2001, Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama gets close.
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