Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke Collection Book 17)

by Arthur C. Clarke

uncertainty was one thing that neither scientists nor politicians could tolerate.

The Hermians, it was often joked, sometimes behaved as if the Sun were their personal property. They were bound to it in an intimate love-hate relationship—as the Vikings had once been linked to the sea, the Nepalese to the Himalayas, the Eskimos to the tundra.