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The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...

The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to rendezvous with the massive alien spacecraft Rama II in the twenty-third century, and even though they are schooled in everything known about Raman technology and culture, they are still not prepared for the reality.