The Ghost from the Grand Banks | Literary Precedents
From time to time, Clarke's characters refer to a motion picture or a novel about the Titanic. But even more overt help comes to the reader in Clarke's closing sections of the book. Following the last chapter of fiction, Clarke gives several pages of bibliography and comment in an easy conversational style. He confesses to using the premise of a space ship Titanic in a story "Icebergs of Space," a work he destroyed rather than publish. He has dedicated The Ghost from the Grand Banks to moviemaker Bill MacQuitty who made the 1958 film about the Titanic's...
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