Kraken

Author(s): China Mieville

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears? For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god - A god that someone is hoping will end the world.


Product Information

China Mieville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian). His most recent novel, Kraken, was published in 2010.

General Fields

  • : 9780330492324
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Pan Books
  • : 0.356
  • : October 2010
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : China Mieville
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 400
  • : FM