The Ghost from the Grand Banks
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The Ghost from the Grand Banks is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke (ISBN 978-0553293876).
The story deals with two groups, both of whom are attempting to raise one of the halves of the wreck of the Titanic from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in time for the sinking's centenial in 2012.
The book contains what may be the first popular reference to the Y2K bug outside of technical literature.
The phrase, Ghost from the Grand Banks, was also used in an earlier Clarke book, Imperial Earth, also regarding a recovered Titanic.
The Novels of Arthur C. Clarke |
Prelude to Space | The Sands of Mars | Islands in the Sky | Against the Fall of Night | Childhood's End | Earthlight | The City and the Stars | The Deep Range | A Fall of Moondust | Dolphin Island | Glide Path | 2001: A Space Odyssey | The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night | Rendezvous with Rama | Imperial Earth | The Fountains of Paradise | 2010: Odyssey Two | Songs of Distant Earth | 2061: Odyssey Three | Cradle | Rama II | The Ghost from the Grand Banks | The Garden of Rama | Rama Revealed | The Hammer of God | Richter 10 | 3001: The Final Odyssey | The Trigger | The Light of Other Days | Time's Eye | Sunstorm | The Last Theorem |