China Miéville: Kraken, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

China Miéville ist der Shooting-Star der internationalen Fantasy-Szene. Allerdings weisen seine Romane auch Elemente anderer Genres wie dem Science Fiction, dem Steampunk und der Horrorliteratur auf. Er selbst bezeichnet sie als "Weird Fiction". Mit einigen seiner Werke hat er Preise wie den renommierten "Arthur C. Clarke Award" gewonnen. Nach "The City&the City" ist "Kraken" sein neuer Roman.

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.