Hal is endowed with artificial intelligence, and the entire spacecraft is a robot under his control. Odyssey Two . The Author himself reads selections from his classic science fiction novels. Click here for more info. Rendezvous with Rama Rama is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons, and it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed.
Mankind prepares for it's first encounter with alien intelligence.
No Robots in this book, but it's one of the best science fiction stories ever told. The title of this hard sci-fi novel refers to 30 degrees above absolute zero, the temperature of the appropriately named planet Ice. This is a classic example of the meticulous working out in story form of a highly sophisticated scientific concept, and nobody does that better than Robert L. Forward. Also recommended, but unfortunately out of print, is Dragon's Egg , about the discovery of life on the surface of a neutron star where gravity is sixty-seven billion times that of Earth, and magnetic fields are two trillion times greater than Earth's. Small spacecraft, left behind by a long-gone race of aliens, are preprogrammed to fly to selected destinations in the galaxy.