Clarke’s prescient and powerful imagination, The Deep Range is a classic work of science fiction that remains deeply relevant to our times. He was quite off on the rationality of humanity but it was lovely to read such an optimistic even happy book after so many dystopian equivalents. The more his explorations deepen, the more he comes to understand man’s true place in natureand the unique role he will soon play in humanity’s future. Overall it's incredibly impressive that in 1957 Arthur C Clarke predicted many of the touchstone issues that are major today. The book is fascinating, it looks at many issues that are extremely relevant at the moment such as synthetic meats and the ethical dilemas of eating animals. The story is almost a series of shorter stories about the same character throughout his career and each story segment has a different focus starting with recovery and restarting, the middle section is more adventure and discovery and the final section is more religious, political and ethical. This book is the calmest sci-fi I've ever read, it has moments of tension, twists turns and loss but there is no world ending catastrophe to avert, it is much smaller scale which I enjoyed. I loved it but I was expecting something very different. A fascinating sci-fi tale on modern issues
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