The Ghost from the Grand Banks | Ideas for Group Discussion
The Ghost from the Grand Banks draws much from historical facts about the Titanic and its last voyage, about the undersea operations such as the Glomar Explorer's deployment to salvage a Soviet Russian nuclear submarine in 1974, and about the computer graphic representations generated by the Mandelbrot Set of calculations. Clarke, too, writes from experience as a diver and salvager-treasure hunter, making much of the description of scenes and undersea activities very easy to imagine. Published in 1990, the novel sets much of its action in the year 2007, but at the end,...
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