The Kraken Wakes
Classic Science Fiction
$24.18
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2008
Summary
A climate fiction masterpiece by one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century.
“One day we walked down to Trafalgar Square. The tide was in…”
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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141032993 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141032995 |
| Author: | John Wyndham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Ingenious, horrifying
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 *
John Wyndham
John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Wyndham died in 1969.
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