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The Deep Range
This story takes place about 100 years in the future, when the earth's population is fed principally from the sea--on whale products or from plankton farms. Its hero is Walter Franklin, a grounded space engineer now assigned to a submarine patrol tending the whale herds.
DEEP RANGE vibrates with exciting adventures of the mysterious sea: a fight with a giant squid at 12,00
...morePaperback, 175 pages
Published
February 1st 1987
by Signet (NY)
(first published 1957)
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Dec 05, 2012
Michael Fierce
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
fans of early sci-fi, cryptid adventures, and lovers of ocean-related fiction
Written in 1957, The Deep Range, is based on the Arthur C. Clarke 1954 short story of the same name, published in the April edition of Argosy magazine, seen here:
The short story version was later published again in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, edited by
Frederik Pohl, seen here:
& again in an Arthur C. Clarke short story collection, Tales from Planet Earth, seen here:
This isn't what most have come to expect from an Arthur C. Clarke science-fiction saga. It feels more like Robert A. Hei...more
Jan 19, 2011
Erik Graff
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
clarke and sf fans
Recommended to Erik by:
no one
Shelves:
sf
Adding covers to GoodReads is particularly interesting when one comes up with one for a book read long ago. This one brings back memories.
I was fourteen, finishing up eighth grade at Lincoln Junior H.S. in Park Ridge when an infection arose under my left eyeball, causing a high fever and swelling that side of my face to such proportions that when my grandmother came to check in on me while Mother was at work, I saw her face react with horror before she regained her composure.
During that period o...more
I was fourteen, finishing up eighth grade at Lincoln Junior H.S. in Park Ridge when an infection arose under my left eyeball, causing a high fever and swelling that side of my face to such proportions that when my grandmother came to check in on me while Mother was at work, I saw her face react with horror before she regained her composure.
During that period o...more
As a literary work, this book is pretty mediocre - the plot is barely defined and there seems to be nothing that the story is trying to achieve. However, the author's thoughts and observations on how incremental changes can accumulate to result in a course reversal for the entire human race are fascinating and well worth exploring. Sir Arthur C. Clarke plays out the issue of converting the food supply chain on the Earth to vegetarian diet through a crafty use of media and public opinion manipula...more
After a tragedy in space, Walter Franklin finds salvation in the depths of the ocean, becoming a warden of the whales, shepherding them as they grow until they are taken to the slaughter to provide food and other resources for the world.
This wasn't one of Clarke's better efforts, I'm afraid. I found the pace somewhat stilted and the style unengaging (although Clarke was a keen diver himself, he doesn't seem to have got his sense of wonder into this one). The book feels incredibly optimistic abou...more
This wasn't one of Clarke's better efforts, I'm afraid. I found the pace somewhat stilted and the style unengaging (although Clarke was a keen diver himself, he doesn't seem to have got his sense of wonder into this one). The book feels incredibly optimistic abou...more
I read almost all of the Arthur C Clarke books as a teenager and really loved them. Re-reading this book after all those years makes you realise how the world and yourself has changed. This book is science fiction, but it has really dated - hardly any of it is prophetic, in fact, quite the opposite. It was written in the late 1950's and is set at around 2020, however, it has 1950's values. Basically, it's about commercial whale farming - a concept that would be totally abhorrent today - along wi...more
It is very sad that the Ocean (which by words of some number guys takes up 72% of Earth surface) receives so little in the department of sci-fi literature. Yes, many stories includes Ocean as a background or even "ground", many uses it as a scenery, some even try to make it alien life from. But how many takes Ocean as a system "environment<=>human"? I'm not talking about scientific papers or longwinded dreams of "what if?", I'm talking about stories where author actually explores situation...more
Oct 27, 2010
Judy
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Arthur C Clarke fans, Sci Fi lovers
Shelves:
books-from-1957,
sci-fi
This captivating story comes from Clarke's other life as a deep sea explorer. Though it is set in the future, when much of Earth's food supply comes from algae and farmed whales, it also falls in the category of extreme adventure.
Don Burley is a whale shepherd, keeping the herds safe from predators. He gets unwillingly pulled off that job and asked to train the mysterious Walt Franklin, a former spacer with some undisclosed past incident that left him subject to panic attacks. The men eventual...more
In the future (as seen from 1957), submersible game wardens herd whales around underwater ranges. The whales are food animals which, along with equally farmed seaweed, have solved the world’s food supply problems. The story is about an ex-engineer on a spaceliner who suffered an accident and gets a new start as a warden.
This book has aged quite badly. While much of Clarke’s space based science fiction can be read with enjoyment today, this one is just plain tedious. So tedious, in fact, that I o...more
This book has aged quite badly. While much of Clarke’s space based science fiction can be read with enjoyment today, this one is just plain tedious. So tedious, in fact, that I o...more
Good, solid science-y fiction. The subject bothered me, but he resolved it well. Slight sexism, but he was decades ahead of his contemporary Heinlein. His take on the three major religions outside of Buddhism was interesting wishful thinking, and I wonder if the state of things in his later life was disappointing.
Great vision for 1957:
Great vision for 1957:
On a planet of instantaneous and universal communications, ideas spread from pole to pole more rapidly than they could once have done by word of mouth in a single...more
The ocean is in its way just as forbidding, dangerous and fascinating an environment for exploration as space. It's surprising to me really how few science fiction works use it as a setting. Other than Frank Herbert's Under Pressure (aka The Dragon in the Sea) I can only think of Clarke's young adult novel Dolphin Island and this one, The Deep Range. As it so happens I think this is one of Clarke's most entertaining books, even if not one of his better known. Set in the Pacific Ocean--or rather...more
This book shows that you don't have to leave the planet to find mysterious and alien beings and creatures.The description of undersea terrain and labyrinths under the ocean are captivating and enthralling. Walter franklins life after the end of his career as an astronaut is used as a mesh to describe the mysteries of the deep sea.
This story has some interesting ideas about the future (now) from a 1950s perspective. It is terrribly disjointed however, unable to find a clear direction. In broad terms I suppose it could be viewed as an overview of the life of a man unable to find satisfaction in anything he does.
The Deep Range is an important Arthur C. Clarke novel because it is devoted to the ocean, as was Clarke all throughout his life. It’s been quite awhile since I read this one, but I remember really enjoying it. Again, the setting played a big part in my enjoyment. The vast oceans of Earth merit the same type of exploration we give the solar system.
As with other books, Clarke takes a stab at philosophy, leaving much to muse upon. Is killing a bug minding its own business amoral? If all other Eart...more
As with other books, Clarke takes a stab at philosophy, leaving much to muse upon. Is killing a bug minding its own business amoral? If all other Eart...more
I read this one a long time ago, so I don't really remember it. My notes indicate that I only rated it "so-so", but that it did bring up some interesting environmental and vegetarian ideas.
An obscure and underrated masterpiece in Arthur C. Clarke's canon. The book deals realistically with the life of a man in the future, his psychological fears, regrets and grieving, and his chance to find a new life.
This book is science fiction in that it is science in the future.
A story of a life in a possible future.
Too dull and slow to recommend.
A story of a life in a possible future.
Too dull and slow to recommend.
Beacause of this books, I started to like Science Fiction.
If greenpeace had a library, this book would be in it.
If greenpeace had a library, this book would be in it.
mine is paperback. same publisher, date, and page number.
Very good book, highly entertaining.
Grade A.
This was originally written in 1957 and I enjoyed the futuristic elements in the plot....but that's about all I liked. Clarke introduces plotlines that are quickly resolved or abandoned and the whole book seems to really go nowhere. I was disappointed because I had read another of his novels and enjoyed it.
Re-reading this. This was better when I was young. Arthur c Clarke is usually pretty reliable but this is mildly interesting but not really worth the effort. Plot wise it's all over the place.
I believe I first read this novel in an omnibus edition of Clarke's work, under the title, From the Ocean, From the Stars. This one is the Ocean part of that.
I can now say I've read a book by Arthur C Clarke. If I read more often for leisure, I'd probabloy read a few more.
Meh. As usual, tons of fascinating ideas from Clarke But the story sort of meanders around. 3.5 stars, I'd say.
All the the glory that is Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.
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