I give it 5 stars for having been fully engaged with this science-fiction world, and one that, I not only believed could be possible but, felt I had been transported to, and really cared about. The ratings by reviewers for this book are up & down and all over the richter scale.

Clarke writing, what is essentially, one of the first cryptid adventures. The real grabber, however, may be that through the demanding daily routines of Walter Franklin's new life, somewhere deep below in the bottom depths of the ocean, lies a mystery or two that may not be at the story's center-piece but, is Arthur C. The parallels to our world are some of the highlights of this adventure. There is an oldschool sci-fi feel to the fresh ideas here that can be fascinating, in both dark and light speculations, to our own real future. Other engineers are assigned their own territories in rotating scheduled shifts. Learning to operate a mini-sub, it is his job to oversee specific designated territories using high-tech sonar equipment to govern and control daily aspects of his job as well as any unforeseen occurances. The details of which I think you would want to learn reading it yourself. It isn't easy for him to let go of his past life. His job is to now perform as a Warden of the deeps. The story centers around Walter Franklin, formerly a space engineer.Īt the beginning of our story, Franklin has just been reassigned and transferred into a new career to an underwater facility, it's location hypothetically decided upon as, existing on Heron Island, Australia.

Heinlein or, someone I can't quite put a finger on while writing this.Ĭlarke proposes a near future world, whose seas are fenced in, by using ultrasonics, to create and procure rich plankton meadows grazed by herds of whales, now domesticized animals raised to feed the masses, like the cows and chickens of today.

This isn't what most have come to expect from an Arthur C. Clarke short story collection, Tales from Planet Earth, seen here: The short story version was later published again in Star Science Fiction Stories No. Clarke 1954 short story of the same name, published in the April edition of Argosy magazine, seen here: Written in 1957, The Deep Range, is based on the Arthur C.

The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke