Title: The Kraken Wakes
First published: 1953
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, English fiction, Large type books, Fiction, science fiction, general, Extraterrestrial beings, Human-alien encounters, Extraterrestres, Romans, nouvelles, Rencontres avec les extraterrestres, Science fiction
LC classification: PR6015 A636 K7