Rama II: The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama

Rating:
Summary: Rama 2 is garbage
Review: This book is *not* written by Arthur C Clarke, it was written by Gentry Lee alone. The promotion of the book as an ACC book is highly misleading.

Gentry Lee belongs on the slushpile. His writing is full of magic and fantasy rather than science fiction. This book contains lengthy, irrelevant asides. The SF component is trivial; the book is basically a large character study.

It is astonishing how bad this book is by comparison to the excellent, simple narrative "Rendezvous with Rama"