Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights: Kraken Wakes

The story of an alien invasion from the author of Day of the Triffids. This is subtle stuff though; strange things begin to happen, ships start to go missing and gradually the sea is no longer safe and the icecaps melt, but we never actually see the aliens. This is a wonderful evocation of the uncertainties and paranoia of a post-imperial, cold war world in which technology and the information revolution are still in their infancy.
Harvey Packham (Fri 22nd Jul 2011)

Publisher synopsis: 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.

ISBN: 9780141032993

Pub. Date: 7th Aug 2008

Pages: 240

Height: 198mm

Width: 129mm

Spine: 15mm

Weight: 169gms