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Book Review of The Kraken Wakes

The Kraken Wakes
reviewed Creatures from another planet, colonize earth's seas, and try to take over. - a classic! on + 86 more book reviews


From the back of the book:

"Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken Sleepeth.

The almost imperceptible beginnings and the cruelly terrifying consequences of this new threat to the world are seen through the eyes of a radio scriptwriter and his wife. Told with convincing detail and immediacy, this novel shares with John Wyndham's other books the distinction of being one of the few modern works of science fiction to bear comparison with the famous novels of H. G. Wells.

'Ingenious, horrifying and well-told' - Guardian