Posted: 16.02.2008, 17:43
Daniel,
No, Ringworld and Rama are not related to one another.
Rendezvous with Rama was written by Arthur C. Clarke. (Later books in the series were written by Gentry Lee.) Rama was a 30 mile long alien spacecraft that flew through the solar system.
Ringworld and its sequels were written by Larry Niven. Ringworld was a megastructure orbiting another star, hundreds of millions of miles in diameter, somewhat larger than Rama Many people have had fun trying to describe why it couldn't work the way Niven originally described. In later books he described ways to avoid those problems.
Making a model that large which still has good surface detail is, shall we say, difficult, and thus a challenge.
No, Ringworld and Rama are not related to one another.
Rendezvous with Rama was written by Arthur C. Clarke. (Later books in the series were written by Gentry Lee.) Rama was a 30 mile long alien spacecraft that flew through the solar system.
Ringworld and its sequels were written by Larry Niven. Ringworld was a megastructure orbiting another star, hundreds of millions of miles in diameter, somewhat larger than Rama Many people have had fun trying to describe why it couldn't work the way Niven originally described. In later books he described ways to avoid those problems.
Making a model that large which still has good surface detail is, shall we say, difficult, and thus a challenge.