Deep Range

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1. WalterBrightAug 2020
   On the other hand, I can get any book I want, including long out-of-print books. I remember years looking for a copy of Clarke's "The Deep Range". Now getting a copy is as trivial as pushing a button.

   And I have indulged myself, acquiring a small mountain of books :-)

   I also browse the books at thrift stores. It's how I've obtained a ton of strange books I never would have discovered otherwise. For example, I found an encyclopedia of electronic circuits I never knew existed. Goodwill is a book gold mine, I wound up getting a nearly complete set of the Star Trek novels (and cheap as dirt, too!).

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2. pcardosoJun 2020
   The book The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke's deals with some of this. An astronaut that fears space is forced to move to a marine force.
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3. KyeApr 2020
   He liked squids.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid_in_popular_culture

   >> 'Arthur C. Clarke used giant squid in many of his works. In The Deep Range, a squid of exaggerated size is captured and exhibited. In the short story "Big Game Hunt", a device capable of controlling the behavior of invertebrates is used in an attempt to capture and film a giant squid. In Childhood's End, one of the characters stows away on an alien spacecraft by hiding inside a model of a giant squid battling a whale.'

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4. cpetersoJun 2018
   Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story about an power generator based on the temperature difference of a long pipe reaching into the cold ocean depths. I think the story was The Deep Range.
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5. fractallyteApr 2011
   No need to keep them on land. Arthur C Clarke's novel 'The Deep Range' had whales being kept in herds, like dairy cows, for their milk. Not implausible at all!
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