The Garden of Rama | Literary Precedents
From the biblical Genesis, through medieval English romances such as "The Knight's Tale" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c. 1387-1394), and countless other stories in the Western tradition, betrayal or fall from innocence in a garden has been a recurrent theme. Within the Rama tetralogy, The Garden of Rama plays most directly on the theme with the colony named New Eden and the Wakefield/ O'Toole family being driven from it. New to the motif, however, is the gathering of two other alien species within the Rama ship who are also contained within their own "gardens" and also...
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