Rama is pretty one of a kind but all of these are absolute essential Sci-Fi reading with lots of the same wonderment at the premise.
Ringworld
The Foundation Trilogy
The Legacy of Heorot (only book I've read 3X)
Enders Game
Hyperion + The Fall of Hyperion
American Gods
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep
2001 A Space Odyssey (same basic story but so much more detailed than the movie)
The Martian Chronicles
The Forever War
I Am Legend (the movie SUCKED!!!)
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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