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The Man Who Ploughed the Sea

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
June 1957

Originally published
  
June 1957

Series
  
Tales from the White Hart

Country
  
United Kingdom

Publisher
  
Renown Publications

Followed by
  
"The Reluctant Orchid"

Author
  
Arthur C. Clarke

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Preceded by
  
Moving Spirit

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Published in
  
Satellite Science Fiction

Similar
  
Arthur C Clarke books, Other books

"The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who recalls a holiday spent submarining off of the Florida Keys. While there, he happens to witness a meeting between two wealthy and talented scientists, one of whom has designed a method to extract trace elements from seawater. He trades his secret to the other in exchange for the other's fancy yacht, but it turns out that the process is not yet commercially viable.

The piece was later published as the tenth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart. Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the collection as "as light and frothy a conglomeration of sidesplitters as it has been my good fortune to read."

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