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The Deep Range

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The Division is a mid-21st Century sea-based organization responsible for feeding a sizable portion of the Earth's population through the farming and harvesting of plankton as well as the herding and slaughter of whales. The Whale Bureau employs wardens who in their single-person scout subs shepherd
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covers Franklin's training and adaptation to his new environment. Along the way he makes a lasting friend of his mentor and meets his eventual new wife. A recurrence of the astrophobia causes a breakdown and suicide attempt. An unexpected rescue convinces Franklin to commit fully to his new life.
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details Franklin's experiences as a veteran warden from the mundane to the more exotic. Abnormally high sperm whale deaths in a specific sector point to the existence of an enormous giant squid, nicknamed Percy. Franklin is tasked with spearheading the effort to find and capture Percy. A similar
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The Deep Range follows the career of former astronaut Walter Franklin in the Marine Division, rising from trainee, to game warden, and eventually to Director of the Bureau of Whales. A spacewalking mishap had left Franklin floating in space, out of contact and isolated for an extended period. The
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sees Franklin in charge as Director of the Bureau of Whales. Amid the everyday administrative and scientific challenges, the Bureau encounters a threat to its very existence. A Buddhist monk mounts a credible and effective campaign to stop the harvest of whales, even though it accounts for an
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In the final chapter Franklin and his wife attend the bittersweet departure of their son into the Space Service and reunion with his former family on Mars: "To his son, he willingly bequeathed the shoreless seas of space. For himself, the oceans of this world were sufficient."
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eighth of the world's food supply. As Franklin struggles to counter the campaign, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the monk's viewpoint. An undersea catastrophe presents Franklin with his last opportunity to visit the depths he has grown to love.
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by Clarke) rendered him unable to function as an astronaut and forever isolated him from his family on Mars. He is forced to turn to the sea for a final attempt at rehabilitation.
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reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel, describing it "as fresh and bright as dawn on a tropic sea." He later called the short story a "super duper topnotcher".
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by the same name that Clarke wrote in November 1953 and which was first published in
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attempt later to capture the elusive Great Sea Serpent goes tragically awry.
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the whale pods and protect them from predatory orcas and sharks.
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A lengthy portion of this novel takes place on an extrapolated
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The short story was then published elsewhere, including in
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Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
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magazine in February 1956 and collected in Clarke's
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Arthur C. Clarke
Science fiction
Frederick Muller Ltd
hardcover
science fiction
Arthur C. Clarke
sub-mariner
mariculture
sea monster
kraken
short story
Frederik Pohl
Star Science Fiction No.3
Argosy
Tales from Planet Earth
acrophobia
Heron Island, Australia
Anuradhapura
Sri Lankan
Galaxy
1957 in science fiction
List of underwater science fiction works
Publication: The Deep Range
Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf
Galaxy Science Fiction
"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf"
Tuck, Donald H.
Advent
ISBN

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