
The Deep Range
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Narrated by:
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Mike Grady
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By:
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Arthur C. Clarke
About this listen
It has taken a long time, but humankind has won its battle against the sea. Now Professionals like Walter Franklin patrol the infinite savannahs of the oceans, harvesting from the plankton prairies. But like that other great frontier, space, the sea has not yet yielded up all its secrets. And men like Franklin will never rest until its every fathomless mystery has been challenged....
©1957 Arthur C. Clarke (P)2012 W F Howes LtdThis book is the calmest sci-fi I've ever read, it has moments of tension, twists turns and loss but there is no world ending catastrophe to avert, it is much smaller scale which I enjoyed.
The story is almost a series of shorter stories about the same character throughout his career and each story segment has a different focus starting with recovery and restarting, the middle section is more adventure and discovery and the final section is more religious, political and ethical.
The book is fascinating, it looks at many issues that are extremely relevant at the moment such as synthetic meats and the ethical dilemas of eating animals. Overall it's incredibly impressive that in 1957 Arthur C Clarke predicted many of the touchstone issues that are major today. He was quite off on the rationality of humanity but it was lovely to read such an optimistic even happy book after so many dystopian equivalents.
A fascinating sci-fi tale on modern issues
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Ethical, thought provoking sci fi
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Space below
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slow burner
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An interesting view of the future from 1957
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Clarke got many things wrong about his future world. Whales are no longer hunted and great plankton farms seem most unlikely. Nevertheless, it is interesting to read about the world he created.
Certainly one for ageing SF readers. As an SF author, it made me think about how many of my books will get the future so wrong.
Tony Harmsworth
Very dated but very much Clarke
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Wokeism before it was invented
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Still a story to entertain and engage
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Oceans. Space. The human drama goes on!
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Good luck trying to guess where the plot of this book is going. There was a very sharp swerve in a different direction towards the end that made it really dull.Chopping and changing
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