MrSquid2U:
"Rama" was a trilogy with a co-writer and the basic premise is that a HUGE "spacecraft" enters our Solar System, well, three of them, nearly identical, over the course of the books. IIRC the very small, fragile one man aircraft, the DragonFly took part in one of the later books. It flew a long distance within the spacecraft from one area to another over a "sea". I believe it did crumple up pretty well by the time things were done.The books dealt with the exploration and trying to determine the meaning behind these spacecraft.
Back to our experiment on the reliability of memory, the Dragonfly was introduced in Chapter 24 of Rendezvous with Rama (the primogenitor, not one of the later books).
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