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Gentry Lee

Bert Gentry Lee (born 1942) is the chief engineer for the Planetary Flight Systems Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a List of federally funded research and development centers and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, California, United States....
and a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
writer

Writer

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. As an author he is best known for co-writing, with Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
, the books Cradle in 1989, Rama II in 1989, The Garden of Rama
The Garden of Rama

The Garden of Rama is a novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke. It is the third book in the four-book Rama series: Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II , The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, and follows on from where Rama II left off....
in 1991 and Rama Revealed
Rama Revealed

Rama Revealed is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last of three sequels to Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft....
in 1993.

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Bert Gentry Lee (born 1942) is the chief engineer for the Planetary Flight Systems Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Science fiction

Writer

Arthur C. Clarke

Carl Sagan

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on the 1980 series Cosmos

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television program written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter....
.

Rendezvous With Rama was written in 1972 and Clarke had no intention of writing a sequel

Sequel

A sequel is a work in literature, film, or other media that portrays events following those of a previous work.In many cases, the sequel continues elements of the original story, often with the same characters and settings....
. Lee attempted to turn the Rama series into a more character-driven story following the adventures of Nicole des Jardins Wakefield

Nicole des Jardins Wakefield

Nicole des Jardins Wakefield is a fictional character and the central protagonist of the three sequels to Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C....
, who becomes the main character in Rama II, The Garden of Rama
The Garden of Rama

The Garden of Rama is a novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke. It is the third book in the four-book Rama series: Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II , The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, and follows on from where Rama II left off....
and Rama Revealed
Rama Revealed

Rama Revealed is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last of three sequels to Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft....
. Many fans of the original book, however, see the three sequels as a money-making ploy. Criticism includes over-stereotyped, exaggerated characters, little resemblance to the original book, and few answers to the questions readers wanted answered most. In the RAMA series and other Clarke-Lee collaborative efforts, criticism is directed mostly at the highly apparent deviation from the classic Arthur C Clarke writing style. When asked, Arthur C. Clarke said that Gentry Lee did the writing while he was a source of ideas.

Lee went on to write three more science fiction novels after Rama Revealed. Two take place in the Rama

Rama (spacecraft)

Rama is a fictional mysterious extraterrestrial vessel that is the subject and setting of the science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C....
universe (Bright Messengers, Double Full Moon Night) while one makes several references to it (Tranquility Wars).

Gentry Lee

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