The Deep Range cover art

The Deep Range

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Deep Range

By: Arthur C. Clarke
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

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 Ltd Science Fiction Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Rendez-vous avec Rama cover art
2001 cover art
The Andromeda Strain cover art
Titans cover art
Deathworld 2 cover art
The Fury Out of Time cover art
Deathworld 3 cover art
Deathworld cover art
Mute cover art
Eon cover art
The Misenchanted Sword cover art
Colossus cover art
From Beyond cover art
The End of the Matter cover art
The Autumn Castle cover art
Peter Simple cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I really enjoyed this book. It's "gentle" sci fi and suitable for people who don't normally listen to this genre. Well written and really makes you think about the planet and our role in it. Good narration.

Ethical, thought provoking sci fi

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Incredibly Clarke wrote this in 1957. handheld computers, worldwide computer connections, and sea-serpents! He goes deep into the oceans and far out into space. His story is almost 60 years old yet predates our modern technological era without seeming out of place today.

Oceans. Space. The human drama goes on!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book was not what I expected. I loved it but I was expecting something very different.
This 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

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I remember reading this in my teens which is surprising as it doesn’t have a strong narrative but is three elements of a persons life that could almost be separate short stories. The themes of food production is still very relevant but much of the elements are set in the 2050’s but that is now so close we know there won’t be space cruises to our colonies on Mars, Venus is uninhabitable and can not support a ocean, the idea of whaling for world food would be unacceptable. And the thought of paper ticker tapes and printouts from a desk phone (fax) seem very dated.

An interesting view of the future from 1957

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
For the most part, I enjoyed this tale. it is quite a simple story that has 3 main acts. it is quite slow to begin but never really gets going. At times you are poised with the potential for great adventure & excitement but it is short lived. C rating

slow burner

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews