If steering Commander Norton’s team across the Cylindrical Sea on a jury‑rigged craft and puzzling out Rama’s biots thrilled you, you’ll love following Bella Lind as she diverts the mining ship Rockhopper to chase Janus—Saturn’s moon that suddenly rockets out of orbit. What begins as a hard‑numbers intercept turns into survival inside staggering alien engineering, with tense EVA problem‑solving, shipboard politics under pressure, and the same chill of deciphering machinery that feels like magic. Like Rama’s lights flickering on at perihelion, Reynolds delivers those precise, awe‑driven reveals that reward careful readers.

You enjoyed watching Norton’s crew trek through Rama’s city‑like interiors, from the stairwells down the curving landscape to the moment the world wakes and the sea storms—so step into the Stone, an asteroid that parks in Earth orbit and opens to reveal the multi‑chambered city of Thistledown and the vast "Way." As international teams map corridors and decipher abandoned tech, the revelations keep scaling up in the same vertiginous way Rama does, turning every new door into a horizon‑expanding moment.

If the incremental, instrument‑driven sleuthing of Rama—cataloging the biots, timing the lighting cycles, and testing the air—hooked you, Watts’s crew aboard the Theseus will scratch the same itch. Interpreter Siri Keeton joins a post‑human team to approach the artifact "Rorschach," and every encounter is a carefully reasoned test of hypotheses, not a firefight. Like trying to infer Rama’s purpose as it slingshots past the Sun, the mission’s discoveries are unsettling, logical, and unforgettable.

If Rama’s mute grandeur and its maintenance biots made you hungry to understand the minds that built such wonders, this delivers a full anthropological encounter. Captain Roderick Blaine’s ship reaches the Mote and meets the Moties—biologically diverse, technologically brilliant, and bound by evolutionary traps. The diplomats, scientists, and officers piece together culture from clues the way Norton’s crew infers function from Rama’s architecture, leading to revelations as sweeping as watching Rama power up for its solar flyby.

If what stayed with you from Rama was the cool, rational wonder—the committee briefings, the careful measurements, the sense that the universe is bigger and stranger than we imagined—then Ellie Arroway’s journey will resonate. From decoding the prime‑number signal from Vega to building the machine according to alien blueprints, Sagan pairs meticulous science with the same reflective awe Clarke channels when Rama silently departs the Solar System, leaving us with more questions—and a deeper sense of possibility.