Kraken Wakes, The (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)

As I read this I realised that the more people died the better I liked it. What does that say about me? Nothing you hadn’t already guessed. But the action in this story of an alien invasion only really kicks off on page 140 and that’s a long time to spend in the company of an irritating smug English......more

I will probably always nod to Wyndham's Day of the Triffids as a crowning piece of SF, but The Kraken Wakes takes on a very similar tone, albeit very different problems. The two both have a heavy focus on science and rationality in the face of unfathomable problems. Triffids had mass blindness turnin......more

Every time I review a John Wyndham I can not resist defending him against the “Cosy Catastrophe” label foisted upon him by Brian Aldiss. The allegation is that Wyndham tends to write books where the middle class white protagonist is not much inconvenienced by the catastrophe affecting the general p......more

There's a law of nature, still waiting to be discovered, which states that the probability of a tune or a bit of bad poetry getting stuck in your head is in inverse proportion to the quality of the piece in question. I read this book almost 40 years ago, and every now and then the following piece of......more

Kraken Uyanıyor, insanlıktan çok ileride olan uzaylı bir toplumun yeryüzünü işgalinin hikayesi. Anlatıcılarımız İngiliz radyo gazetecisi olan Mike “Watson” ve eşi Phyllis. Kitap ex-post tarzda, yaşanan felaketin ardından Mike’ın bütün bu süreci kitap haline getirme kararıyla açılıyor. Çiftin balayı......more