Book description
For a century, it hid below the waves. It's the year 2012: a hundred
years after the sinking of the Titanic. Two of the world's most popular
corporations, each headed by an eccentric and brilliant man, race to
find a way to raise and preserve the doomed luxury ocean liner. Two
multibillion-dollar technologies are tested in a plan to raise the ship
that will stun the world and create media feeding frenzy. The rival CEOs
gather together the twenty-first century's most brilliant minds,
including Roy Emerson, technical problem solver and the prodigy behind
the glass microsphere; computer geniuses Donald and Edith Craig, darkly
fixated by the enigmatic mathematical "Mandelbrot-Set;" and
the grand old man of deep-water operations, Jason Bradley, pilot of a
state-of-the-art high pressure heliox suit named "Jim." Two
adversary technologies under four hundred atmospheres of pressure at the
bottom of the ocean. To each of the undersea explorers, the quest to
uncover the secrets of the wreck and to reclaim her for all time becomes
an obsession - and for some, a fatal one. Arthur C. Clarke was born in
Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar
instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he
won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from
King's College, London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction
writers, he also won the KALINGA PRIZE, the AVIATION SPACE-WRITERS
PRIZE,and the WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE WRITING PRIZE. He also shared an
OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A
SPACE ODYSSEY, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He lived in
Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008. To discover more about how
the legacy of Sir Arthur is being honoured today, please visit
http://www. clarkefoundation. org
