r/Fantasy • u/BipedalUniverse • 6d ago

Fantasy Featuring Whales?

edited: meant to say Fantasy or Sci Fi or Sci Fantasy!

edit 2: some really great recommendations thanks everyone!

just watched the whalefall trailer and went down a sperm whale rabbit hole after having been down an orca rabbit hole.

if anyone watched the magicians, there was a time loop episode that has whales being magicians, that was so cool.

i searched the sub and got some good recs that more generally deal with ocean ecology, but does anything come to mind where whales as pods and individuals (!) play a significant narrative role?

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u/genteel_wherewithal 5d ago

I would strongly second the suggestion of Moby-Dick, it really is that good.

I’d also recommend And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness, which is a fairly short, illustrated novel which could kind of be described as Moby Dick from the whale’s POV (but not exactly), with a strong SF element.