The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham
Penguin Books Ltd
<p>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 . . .<p>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 &#8211; one of the compounds upon which life depends &#8211; is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .<p>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.</p></p></p>