Kraken

Informationen zum Autor China Miéville lives and works in London. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City , an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His novel Embassytown was a first and widely praised foray into science fiction. Klappentext Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author of Perdido Street Station, China Miéville. 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. A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre Zusammenfassung A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre

Product details

• Authors: China Mieville, China Miéville
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.05.2011
• EAN: 9780330492324
• ISBN: 978-0-330-49232-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Tor Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, Fantasy, London, Greater London, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary