The Division is a mid-21st Century sea-based organization responsible for feeding a sizable portion of the Earth's population through the farming and harvesting of plankton as well as the herding and slaughter of whales. He is forced to turn to the sea for a final attempt at rehabilitation. The resulting severe acrophobia (termed astrophobia by Clarke) rendered him unable to function as an astronaut and forever isolated him from his family on Mars. A spacewalking mishap had left Franklin floating in space, out of contact and isolated for an extended period. The Deep Range follows the career of former astronaut Walter Franklin in the Marine Division, rising from trainee, to game warden, and eventually to Director of the Bureau of Whales. The short story was then published elsewhere, including in Argosy (UK magazine) magazine in February 1956 and collected in Clarke's Tales from Planet Earth (1989). The novel is based on a short story by the same name that Clarke wrote in November 1953 and which was first published in Frederik Pohl's Star Science Fiction No.3, copyrighted in 1954 but published in January 1955. The story includes the capture of a sea monster similar to a kraken. Clarke, concerning a future sub-mariner who works in the field of mariculture, herding whales. The Deep Range is a 1957 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C.
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