The Fantasy Review’s list of 6 Science Fiction Books Better Than Rendezvous with Rama, According to Goodreads.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke is an absolute classic of the science fiction genre, with a rating of 4.12. Here is a list of similar books with a higher rating on Goodreads.
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman (4.15)
From the blurb:
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months’ tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (4.17)
From the blurb:
In 2075, the Moon is no longer a penal colony. But it is still a prison…
Life isn’t easy for the political dissidents and convicts who live in the scattered colonies that make up lunar civilisation. Everything is regulated strictly, efficiently and cheaply by a central supercomputer, HOLMES IV...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (4.17)
From the blurb:
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth...
Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov (4.18)
From the blurb:
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation…
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons (4.25)
From the blurb:
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all...
Contact by Carl Sagan (4.29)
From the blurb:
The future is here…in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the source. What follows is an eye-opening journey out to the stars to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who—or what—is out there? Why are they watching us? And what do they want with us?…
