The deep range

[Apologies for formatting and any remaining typos. The blogger android app does not help with either].

Until quite recently, I had only read the space age science fiction of Arthur Clark, so when on a recent landmark trip I located 'The deep range', where sea is the stage, I immedietly picked it up. Just finished reading it.

Clark himself was an early underwater exploration enthusiast, as he relates in the preface. The book is a little different from his characteristic epic sagas though; it takes place in quite the near future and the science element is not miraculous, as is the wont of epics. Superb narrative and plot development, and interspersed bits of geniune wonder and wisdom are there as expected. And as one reviewer puts it on the back cover, "Enough crises to keep you reading avidly".

The book is an engaging read, but that is not the whole story. The topic of sea also brought back the roars  and the sparkles which etched themselves on my mind at the campfire at Diveagar in 2009. Getting reminded of them was as a great a pleasure as any.

Enjoy!