Arthur C. Clarke's 1973 novel Rendezvous with Rama is considered a key example of hard science
fiction. However, as a realistic vision of the future, it is notably lacking.
Set in the year 2130, read forty years after its publication, its future feels
archaic. Clarke's future is one dominated by white Anglo-Saxon men,
neo-Judeo-Christian undertones, and an uncanny sense that the future resembles
the past more than the present.
