The Kraken Wakes

John Wyndham

first published 1953 L P Books, 1988 hardcover 376 pages

A New Portway large print book

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 t...

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Kraken Wakes edition · 2022 · Random House Publishing Group · 256 pages · 9780593450109
Kraken Uyanıyor paperback · 2020 · Delidolu · 280 pages · 9786052349809
El kraken despierta edition · 2015 · Alianza · 9788491040750
The Kraken Wakes edition · 2010 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141920887
The Kraken Wakes edition · 2008 · Penguin Books · 240 pages · 9780141032993
The Kraken Wakes hardcover · 1998 · Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C · 367 pages · 9780754031772
The Kraken Wakes (BBC Radio Collection) audiobook · 1998 · BBC Audiobooks · 9780563557906
The Kraken Wakes hardcover · 1988 · L P Books · 376 pages · 9780851192239
The Kraken Wakes paperback · 1973 · Penguin Books Ltd · 240 pages · 9780140010756
Kraken Wakes (Imprint Books) paperback · 1972 · Longman · 240 pages · 9780582233706
The Kraken wakes edition · 1962 · Longman · 127 pages
The kraken wakes hardcover · 1953 · Michael Joseph · 288 pages

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