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The Kraken Wakes
  • Published: 18 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141920887
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Kraken Wakes

Classic Science Fiction



Vibrant reissue of five of John Wyndham's most famous novels

It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceansdeeps. 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.

  • Published: 18 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141920887
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He had a variety of careers before becoming an author, but decided to take up writing professionally in 1925. Under several pseudonyms, he wrote numerous short stories for American science fiction magazines. During World War II, he worked in the Ministry of Information before serving in the army, and took part in the Normandy landings. He returned to writing in 1946, using the pen name John Wyndham, and The Day of the Triffids was published in 1951. It was a huge success, and was followed by seven further novels. He died in 1969.

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Praise for The Kraken Wakes

Ingenious, horrifying

Guardian