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While Cradle works the concept of contact with extraterrestrials in the relatively "near future" and uses a plausibly "here and now" perspective of life in Miami and the Florida coastal waters, Clarke and Gentry Lee's Rama tetralogy — Rendezvous with Rama (1973), Rama II (1989), The Garden of Rama (1991), and Rama Revealed (1994) — develop a "far future" (twenty-second and twenty-third century) saga of humanity's expanding horizons via contacts with mysterious and highly advanced beings which are surveying the galaxy to catalog and observe the various...

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