Tag: apocalypse

The Kraken Wakes

by Derelict Space Sheep on June 30, 2024 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

The Kraken Wakes

by John Wyndham (Michael Joseph, 1953)

audiobook read by John Sackville (Audible, 2022)

A literary apocalyptic novel more Wells than Lovecraft (and superior to both). Wyndham’s narrative carries the ring of truth—through myriad details and logistics but also in its portrayal of humanity’s collective flaws. Phyllis Watson plays second fiddle yet outshines her husband.

Good Omens (2014)

by Derelict Space Sheep on August 24, 2016 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

radio dramatisation by Dirk Maggs (BBC Worldwide, 2014)

Dirk Maggs has adapted Pratchett and Gaiman’s comedic novel of the apocalypse with apposite exuberance, yet for all the well-pitched sound design and the cast’s astute voice work, this zany and enjoyable dramatisation does perforce forego the original book’s drollery of prose.