{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Rendezvous with Rama","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/rendezvous-with-rama","description":"Rama was first picked up by radar as asteroid 31/439 while still outside the orbit of Jupiter; and it was only when it was realised that it had a diameter of some twelve miles and that its course might completely upset the delicate balance of the solar system that scientists became at first intrigued and then worried. A space-probe was launched on a high-speed trajectory to intercept the mysterious intruder and to photograph it. Seven weeks after the probe’s launch, the pictures it transmitted brought to a halt the activities of most of mankind…","author_name":"Arthur C. Clarke","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/arthur-c-clarke","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/20518146/c49aa24a1b0de1b88192d9bb59053ee7dd2af4fc.jpeg","thumbnail_width":305,"thumbnail_height":500}