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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

1239.0. "book - whales intelligent?" by TPSYS::LAING (Soft-Core Cuddler * TAY1-2/H9 * 227-4472) Wed Aug 10 1994 13:59

    I'm trying to remember a title/author of an SF book that has as part of
    its plot the concep that whales are "intelligent" beings etc.  Can
    anyone tell me what book (or series) that I might be thinking of?
    
    (I'm working from a vague memory of a friend telling me of such a book
    a long time ago)
    				Thanks,
    				Jim
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1239.1QUARRY::petertrigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertaintyWed Aug 10 1994 16:0312
Best I can think of are:  Godwhale  by TJ Bass I thinks.  Haven't read it, but
there is a whale involved.
                       Startide Rising, by David Brin, intelligent dolphins,
                                        and some of the larger cousins, killer
        	                        whales.  No humpbacks or rights though...

		          perhaps something by S.P. Somtow  seems to me that
				         maybe Starship and Haiku had a whale
                                         on the cover, though then again,
                                         maybe I'm crossing memory with Godwhale.

PeterT
1239.2FUTURS::CROSSLEYFor internal use onlyThu Aug 11 1994 09:4516
    
    The following are all the books I can find about Whales :-
    
    
    Title                                   Author
    
    Last Whales                             Lynn Abbey
    
    Wind Whales of Ishmael                  Philip Jos. Farmer
    
    White Whale                             Robert Siegel
    
    Whalesong                               Robert Siegel
    
    Ian.
    
1239.3SHIPS::RIOT01::SUMMERFIELDSynthetic Chiefs with T.V. SmilesThu Aug 11 1994 10:208
Another two to add to the list

Title				Author

The Jonah Kit			Ian Watson
Cachalot			Alan Dean Foster

Clive
1239.4more info?TPSYS::LAINGSoft-Core Cuddler * TAY1-2/H9 * 227-4472Thu Aug 11 1994 16:016
    Re .2, .3
    Are any of the books you listed about "intelligent" whales ... quick
    plot synopsis would be nice
    
    	Thanks,
    	Jim
1239.5Searls' SoundingsMTWAIN::KLAESNo Guts, No GalaxyThu Aug 11 1994 17:4910
    	You may also want to try Soundings by Hank Searls, 1981.  It
    deals with a male sperm whale that has become fascinated with a
    Soviet submarine stuck on the bottom of the Atlantic.  One of the
    crew passed the time by playing classical music and the vibrations
    through the hull attracted the whale.  The whale is also curious
    about humans in general and we get to see 'his' insights into
    human beings.
    
    	Larry
    
1239.6FUTURS::CROSSLEYFor internal use onlyFri Aug 12 1994 05:068
    
    r.e. .4
    
    Sorry, but I can only search for titles containing the word `WHALE'.
    
    Thought they may help to jog a memory or two.........
    
    Ian.
1239.7Maybe it was this one...QUARRY::petertrigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertaintyThu Aug 25 1994 11:5812
Taking this from the review of a book of short stories by
Alexander Jablokov.  

 "A Deeper Sea," with its intelligent cetaceans, was
probably expanded into Jablokov's novel of the same name, but stands
perfectly well on its own here, and again has the non-linear narrative
that Jablokov seems to like.
 
This would be a fairly recent book.  I've read his book, CARVE THE SKY and
liked it a lot.  He's definitely an interesting writer.

PeterT