The novel “Rama II” by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee was published for the first time in 1989. It’s the sequel of “Rendezvous with Rama”.

Seventy years after the passage of the alien spaceship called Rama, another one that looks identical gets spotted. Despite the terrible global economic crisis of the previous decades led to sharp cuts in space exploration, an expedition is set up to go and try to find out the secrets of what gets called Rama II.

The Rama II exploration mission’s crew members are supposed to be professionals focused on scientific research. Instead, some of them show soon they have secret agendas and ambitions that interfere with the research. Some events that may or may not be accidents further threaten the expedition.