Editing Rendezvous with Rama (section)

==Reception==
[[John Leonard (critic)|John Leonard]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'', while finding Clarke "benignly indifferent to the niceties of characterization", praised the novel for conveying "that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes sci-fi at its most technically imaginative".<ref>{{Cite news 
  |url = http://nyti.ms/1G42YbY
  |title = Books of the Times: Two Tales for the Future
  |access-date = 29 March 2015
  |author-link = John Leonard (critic)
  |last = Leonard
  |first = John
  |date = 22 August 1973
  |via= TimesMachine.NYTimes.com
  |newspaper= [[The New York Times]]
  |page = 35
}}</ref> Other reviewers have also commented on Clarke's lack of character development and overemphasis on realism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scifi.about.com/od/bookreviews/fr/Review-Arendezvous-With-Rama-By-Arthur-C-Clarke.htm |title=Review: 'Rendezvous with Rama' by Arthur C. Clarke |last=Wilson |first=Mark |website=About.com |access-date=19 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019200418/http://scifi.about.com/od/bookreviews/fr/Review-Arendezvous-With-Rama-By-Arthur-C-Clarke.htm |archive-date=19 October 2013 }}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
The novel received the following awards:
*[[Nebula Award for Best Novel]] in 1973<ref name="WWE-1973">{{Cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1973
| title = 1973 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=29 September 2009
}}</ref>
*[[British Science Fiction Association Award]] in 1973<ref name="WWE-1973"/>
*[[Hugo Award for Best Novel]] in 1974<ref name="WWE-1974">{{Cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1974
| title = 1974 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=29 September 2009
}}</ref>
*[[Jupiter Award (science fiction award)|Jupiter Award]] for Best Novel in 1974<ref name="WWE-1974"/>
*[[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]] in 1974<ref name="WWE-1974"/>
*[[Locus Award]] for Best Novel in 1974<ref name="WWE-1974"/>
*[[Seiun Award]] for Best Foreign Language Novel in 1980