There's no hint of global warming, pollution, or endangered species. The Deep Range presents a 21st Century where mankind is calmly farming the oceans and peacefully feeding the world. However, my enjoyment of the book came less from his story and more from his 1950s view of the future. Being slightly more mature, I appreciate his work more than I did in my youth. Clarke has expanded it beyond the cowboy tale, exploring how the oceans might be converted to agriculture. I bought it, brought it home, and have finally read it. Anyway, at the last library sale, I was perusing the science fiction paperbacks and found this very novel. Clarke had expanded the short story to novel length. Yet, the name stuck in my head after many re-readings of the collection.

It was far from my favorite, being essentially a cowboy story with the cows being replaced by whales. I did, however, get a nifty little book of science fiction tales, one of which was a short story called 'The Deep Range'. It didn't live up to my expectations, mainly because my expectations were to get graded for simply reading stories, not for quizzes, papers, or any of those other requirements that the teacher tacked onto the class. The more his explorations deepen, the more he comes to understand man’s true place in nature-and the unique role he will soon play in humanity’s future.Ī lasting testament to Arthur C. Clarke’s prescient and powerful imagination, The Deep Range is a classic work of science fiction that remains deeply relevant to our times.Way back in High School I was able to take a class in Science Fiction. Initially indifferent to his new station, if not bored by his daily routines, Walter soon becomes fascinated by the sea’s mysteries.

It is a world where gigantic whale herds are tended by submariners and vast plankton farms stave off the threat of hunger.įormer space engineer Walter Franklin has been assigned to a submarine patrol.

In the very near future, humanity has fully harnessed the sea’s immense potential, employing advanced sonar technology to control and harvest untold resources for human consumption.

A man discovers the planet’s destiny in the ocean’s depths in this near-future novel by one of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction authors.

The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke