The Kraken Wakes

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, 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 searing 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.