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Cover artist Tom Stimpson Publication date 1990 ISBN 0-575-04906-5 Country United Kingdom | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 253 pp Originally published 1990 Genre Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Similar The Trigger, Richter 10, Imperial Earth, Islands in the Sky, Dolphin Island | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Ghost from the Grand Banks is a 1990 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (ISBN 0-575-04906-5).
The story deals with two groups, both of whom are attempting to raise one of the halves of the wreck of Titanic from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in time for the sinking's centennial in 2012.
Chapter 7 is an editorial from The Times for April 15, 2007 which urges that the Titanic be left alone: "There is no need to revisit her to be reminded of the most important lesson the Titanic can teach—the dangers of over-confidence, of technological hubris." As the plot develops, Clarke moves events through complications that echo the editorial.
The phrase Ghost from the Grand Banks was also used in an earlier Clarke book, Imperial Earth, also regarding a recovered Titanic.