Hardcover, 509 pages
English language
Published June 29, 2010 by Del Rey.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-49749-9
- OCLC Number:
- 436030063
- ISFDB ID:
- 318101
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With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and most flat-out chilling books you will read this or any other-year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about-or prevent- the End of All Things.
Deep in the research wing of London's 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 …
With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and most flat-out chilling books you will read this or any other-year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about-or prevent- the End of All Things.
Deep in the research wing of London's 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.