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Kraken

Kraken

A Novel
Dark FantasyFantasy
Pages
497
Published
2010
Language
English

Synopsis

In London, a giant squid cult is preparing for the end of the world, and their plans are anything but a joke. When a mysterious artifact is stolen from the Natural History Museum, a curator finds himself entangled in a bizarre and dangerous conspiracy. He must race against time to uncover the truth before the city, and perhaps the world, is consumed.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkSatiricalThought-ProvokingComplexFunny

Genres

Dark Fantasy Fantasy Literary Fiction Science Fiction Urban Fantasy Crime Horror Mystery Suspense Thriller

About the author

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China Miéville

China Miéville (born 6 September 1972 in Norwich) is an English writer of speculative fiction, best known for the Bas-Lag novels beginning with Perdido Street Station and for The City & The City. His work is often placed under the label "weird fiction" and within the New Weird. He holds the record for most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins, with three, and has also won the Hugo, World Fantasy and Locus awards. He studied social anthropology at Cambridge and took a PhD in international law at the Londo...

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