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- Hilbert van Nydeck Schenck, Jr. (February 12, 1926 – December 2, 2013) was an.
- Hilbert van Nydeck Schenck, Jr. was an American science fiction writer and engineer.
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Hilbert Schenck was an American science fiction writer and engineer. He was numerously nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards.
Background
Hilbert Schenck was born Hilbert van Nydeck Schenck Jr. on February 12, 1926, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Education
Hilbert Schenck graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics in 1950. He continued his education at Stanford University and earned a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1952.
Career
Hilbert Schenck served from 1944 to 1946 as an electronic technician in the United States Navy. After completing his studies, Schenck worked as a test engineer at Pratt&Whitney Aircraft until 1956, after which he became an assistant professor at Clarkson College in Potsdam, New York. From 1966 to 1983 he was a professor at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston and from 1968 to 1980 he acted as the head of the Scuba Safety Project. He was an engineer specializi
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At the Eye of the Ocean
This is an odd book. I read it back in the Eighties because it was on a best of the year list. I wanted to rate it here and I had not, so I read it again. In some ways, I wish I hadn't. It is not that the book is terrible, but it has two major problems. First, is the structure of the book.
The book starts with a narrative by Abel Roon, a young man with a sense of the ocean. It is hard to describe exactly what this sense of the ocean is, in part because the author never really defines it very well. Abel can sense the life in the ocean. Yes, he can sense the fish, and there is one very telling scene where he predicts the action of a whale and saves all the lives in the whale boat, but it is more than just the life that lives in the ocean. He has a sense of the life of ocean. And, after certain adventures which the time of the story, the 1840s and 50s might suggest to you, he travels on a whaling ship to the Pacific to visit the Eye of the Ocean. The Eye is a place, but not really a location. It cannot be found by s
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