Ian Brown reviewed The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. …
C'est toujours l'écroulement.
5 stars
Content warning Mild spoiler alert. Read the book first. It is a good one.
A fantastic (and perhaps prescient) account of the end of the world. Aliens or climate change, the ultimate cause of our doom will be the limits on our ability as a species to rise above the limits of our humanity. As with any good apocalypse story some aspects of humanity are quickly disposed of, just not the ones needed to carry the day.