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The Deep Range (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

by Arthur C. Clarke (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New Ed edition (10 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575077115
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575077119
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 310,808 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Since the beginning of time it had worked its will on humanity, and for as long as man could remember, he had struggled against its power. But in the 21st century the battle was won: the sea, mankind's age-old enemy, had finally been conquered. Professionals like Walter Franklin now patrolled the infinite savannahs of the oceans, harvesting from the plankton prairies as crop which kept the world fed. But like that other great frontier, space, the sea had not yet yielded up all its secrets. And men like Franklin would never rest until its every fathomless mystery had been challenged . . .

About the Author
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's College, London taking, in 1948, his B.Sc. in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science fiction writers, he has won the Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Clarke ventures into Inner Space, 4 April 2001
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This review is from: The Deep Range (Paperback)
As a self-confessed Clarke nut I actually have to say that this book is by far and away my favourite. The fact has long since overtaken the fiction and some of the assumptions do not hold, but the book's underlying message is masterful. How the conservationists and particularly a zoologist like myself, would love to find a sustainable market for the world around us. It is difficult to judge whether Clarke's vision could have worked as our experience of managing the environment is far from encouraging. Others may disagree with me on this point, but the characterisations in this book are streets ahead of any other book of his - and that is saying something.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sea..the final frontier., 16 Jan 2008
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Where does a retired astronaut go for emplyment? Into an environment that is every bit as dangerous.

One of only a handfull of fiction stories written by Clarke that are not directly concerned with space, Deep Range looks to a future where the killer whale is used as a sheepdog [a joke to do with the colouring of Border Colliers perhaps?] to herd larger whales that are killed and turned into food.

If that is enough to put you off the story you will be missing out on a classic Clarke novel, and you must remember that when it was written whaling did not have the image it does now, any more than it did at the time when Melville wrote Moby-Dick.

There is a parallel with Ahab and one of the lead characters in the book who is obsessed by a strange sonar reading he has seen on occasion, and is convinced that it is an undiscovered sea creature-and a large one at that.

The design and operation of submersables is given as much detail as the space craft that are more familiar Clarke territiory. The characters have a little more depth [pun intended] than some of Clarkes contemporary work and it is an interesting look at a future that never was to be.
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2.0 out of 5 stars OK, but Clarke can do better, 25 April 2000
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There are lots of interesting ideas here, but not really enough of a strong story to make this a classic ACC read. Disappointing.
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