The Ghost from the Grand Banks | Techniques
While his collaboration with authors such as Gentry Lee on other novels seems to have drawn Clarke a little further into character development in The Ghost of the Grand Banks, Clarke still shows his tendency to give quick summary strokes of background and personality, then to set his characters in motion in brief episodes. The medium-short novel, in fact, has four major sections entitled "Prelude," "Preparations," "Operations," and "Finale," and it is closed by a short chapter of acknowledgments and an appendix that explains in everyday language the basics of the Mandelbrot set of...
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