The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham
Random House Publishing Group
<b>An &ldquo;ingenious, horrifying&rdquo; (<i>The Guardian</i>) first contact story by one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most brilliant&mdash;and neglected&mdash;science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called &ldquo;the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.&rdquo;</b><br><br><b>&ldquo;Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like <i>The Kraken Wakes</i>. . . . Feels all too familiar in today&rsquo;s age of anti-vaxxer disinformation and QAnon conspiracists.&rdquo;</b> <b>&mdash;Alexandra Kleeman, from the Introduction</b> <br><br><i>What if aliens invaded and colonized Earth&rsquo;s oceans rather than its land?</i><br><br>Britain, 1953: It begins with red dots appearing across the sky and crashing to the oceans&rsquo; deeps. At first, many people believe that these aliens are interested in only what&rsquo;s down below. But when the polar ice-caps begin to melt, it...