Much the same is true of the two main British SF flood narratives of the 1950s and
early 1960s, John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes (1953) and J.G. Ballard's The
Drowned World (1962). Although both were possibly inspired by the flooding of ...
Author: Andrew Milner
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Category: Literary Criticism
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On hot days, so Norwegian sailors of the 16th century reported, the sea would
turn murky and the monstrous Kraken ... the appearance of the Kraken coincided
with an abundance In his 1953 sci-fi novel The Kraken Wakes, John OF GODS, ...
Author: Ruth Binney
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486828751
Category: Nature
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... Damon 110 Kohn, Eduardo 60 Koja, Kathe 210n3 Korea, Korean 5, 128, 134–
5, 137, 146n27 'The Kosso' (Temple) 52n33 Kraken (Miéville) 58 The Kraken
Wakes (Wyndham) 45 Krieger, Murray 219–20 Kristeva, Julia 142, 214, 228
Kroker, ...
Author: Katherine E. Bishop
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786835606
Category: Literary Criticism
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During the 1930s he wrote many short stories, mostly for American pulp
magazines, but his reputation rests on the trio of catastrophe novels he published
in the 1950s: The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes and The Chrysalids. He
died in ...
Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241950600
Category: Fiction
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The Day of the Triffids is perhaps the most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century and its startling imagery of desolate streets and lurching, lethal plant life retains its power to haunt today.
Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141912111
Category: Fiction
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The kraken wakes . - - The chrysalids . ( PZ3 . H2422J02 ] fic 66 - 448 I . Title . II .
Title : The day of the triftids . III . Title : The kraken wakes . IV . Title : The HARRIS ,
Kathleen FIC Head nurse . New York , Popular Lib . ( 1961 , c . 1959 ) 128p .
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Category: Bibliography, National
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The publication of David Ketterer's authorised biography and the 40th anniversary of the novelist's death are likely to stimulate considerable interest in the work of John Wyndham and Plan for Chaos offers reviewers and feature writers a ...
Author: John Wyndham
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ISBN: 9781846311796
Category: Fiction
Page: 263
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The Kraken wakes : Behaviourism in the twenty - first century Julian C. Leslie
University of Ulster at Jordanstown KRAKEN : a mythical sea - monster of
enormous size , said to have been seen at times off the coast of Norway ( Shorter
Oxford ...
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As in The Kraken Wakes , The Day of the Triffids also deals with an alien menace
in the world of today . The Chrysalids , the third of his really great novels , is a
prototypical book about telepathic mutants in a world made barren by nuclear ...
Author: University of New South Wales. School of Librarianship
Publisher: Kensington, N.S.W : University of New South Wales, School of Librarianship
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Category: Children
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John Wyndham , The Kraken Wakes The first classic invasion novel was The War
of the Worlds , where the Martian invaders are all - conquering until they fall
victim to terrestrial germs to which they have no resistance . Alien invaders since
...
Author: Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
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Category: Fantasy fiction
Page: 384
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Communication would then be very difficult : in John Wyndham ' s novel The
Kraken Wakes there was no exchange of ideas in that situation , only outright
warfare . 23 It might be impossible even to find the ship in deep water ; whereas ...
Author: Duncan Lunan
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Category: Interstellar communication
Page: 324
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The Kraken Wakes appeared in boards in England with the Michael Joseph
imprint, and in the United States in paperback as Out of the Deeps. With echoes
of Karel Capek's War with the Newts, it chronicles in fascinating detail the
attempts of ...
Author: Sam Moskowitz
Publisher: Westport, Conn : Hyperion Press
ISBN: 9780883551585
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 441
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At fids , " " The Kraken Wakes " ( called any rate , most people don't know “ Out of
the Deeps ” when Ballan about it . Here's your chance to find tine published the
simultaneous out what it's like . hard and soft - cover editions in 1953 ) , and " The
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VOLUME VI : SERIES IV : JUNE 1968 SECTION II PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Leviathan , Behemoth , Kraken WATSON KIRKCONNELL , F.R.S.C. * OMEWHAT
like ... 6Cf . Tennyson's " The Kraken , ” and John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes
.
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