On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:51:34 +0100, Marc Roth wrote:

> Felbrigg wrote:
>> Nice!
>> 
>> Have you ever tried "World in a Tube".  In a book called "EON", in contained
>> a huge endless Tube with the world wrapped around the Inside along in
>> length, and a shimmering (banded) light source running along the centre of
>> the tube.
>> 
>> It would be an intresting excercise.
> wasn't there some book called "rendezvous with rama" or something with a 
> space-ship just like you described? i don't recall the author's name...
> 
> 	Marc

I think the Rama spacecraft (By Authur C. Clarke) was a closed cylinder,
but I haven't read it in a while. What the OP describes sounds like Larry
Niven's Ring World.

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