The kraken wakes
(Book)

"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, a division of Penguin Random House UK, and in paperback in the United States (under the title Out of the Deeps) by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1953." --Title page verso.

It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . . For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water -- one of the compounds upon which life depends -- is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . . The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive. An ingenious early example of climate fiction, The Kraken Wakes is an overlooked classic by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant science fiction and horror writers.