The novel “Rama Revealed” by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee was published for the first time in 1993. It’s the sequel to “The Garden of Rama”.

Nicole des Jardins Wakefield is helped to escape the prison where she was locked up awaiting execution by her husband Richard and together with some other opponents of the Nakamura regime that holds absolute power in the human colony. The group takes refuge in the area of Rama where the aliens called octospiders live.

For Nicole, her family and her friends it’s a period which is very interesting for what they discover about various alien species but it’s not an easy situation. For some of them it’s difficult to live among aliens who have a lifestyle very different from that of humans and what they discover about what’s happening in Rama’s human colony adds further tension.