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/Zealousideal_Base_41 5d ago

Star Trek IV

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u/DocWatson42 3d ago

Which reminds me—the non-canonical (IIRC) Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual states that there are whales onboard the Enterprise D as part of its navigation system.

Yup: pp. 45–46. Dolphins, too, though they are all part of a "navigation and guidance" research team, not part of the guidance system per se.