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. Way back in High School I was able to take a class in Science Fiction.
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