Rama II takes you on an exhilarating space journey, a trip no reader will want to miss. Years ago, the enormous and enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system, offering mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe.

Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling towards us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. Armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture, they embark on their mission.

But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational—and perhaps even deadly.

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before.

Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days—Brennan figured to meet that ship first.

He was never seen again—at least not by those alive at the time.