The Kraken Wakes
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:7th Aug '08
Should be back in stock very soon
'Ingenious, horrifying' - Guardian
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .
For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water - one of the compounds upon which life depends - is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .
The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .
For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water - one of the compounds upon which life depends - is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .
The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
Ingenious, horrifying * Guardian *
At a time when truth is often stranger than fiction, this is the perfect time to rediscover a writer whose vision has never been more relevant * LA Review of Books *
Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like The Kraken Wakes. . . . Feels all too familiar in today’s age of anti-vaxxer disinformation and QAnon conspiracists -- Alexandra Kleeman
Recalled the great days of H. G. Wells * Observer *
Ingenious, horrifying * Guardian *
ISBN: 9780141032993
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 16mm
Weight: 168g
240 pages