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Die herausragende Meeresbiologin Dr. Ha Nguyen, die ihr Leben lang die Intelligenz von Kopffüßern erforscht hat, reist zum abgelegenen Con Dao Archipel vor der Südküste Vietnams, um sich der Forschungsgruppe des Technologiekonzerns DIANIMA anzuschließen. Die Gruppe, bestehend aus Ha, einer kampferprobten Kriegsveteranin und dem ersten Androiden der Welt, soll eine hochintelligente, aber gefährliche Krakenart verstehen lernen, denn den Gerüchten nach haben die Kreaturen ihre eigene Sprache und Kultur entwickelt.

Die herausragende Meeresbiologin Dr. Ha Nguyen, die ihr Leben lang die Intelligenz von Kopffüßern erforscht hat, reist zum abgelegenen Con Dao Archipel vor der Südküste Vietnams, um sich der Forschungsgruppe des Technologiekonzerns DIANIMA anzuschließen. Die Gruppe, bestehend aus Ha, einer kampferprobten Kriegsveteranin und dem ersten Androiden der Welt, soll eine hochintelligente, aber gefährliche Krakenart verstehen lernen, denn den Gerüchten nach haben die Kreaturen ihre eigene Sprache und Kultur entwickelt.

The ocean is the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth. With eighty percent of it still largely unexplored, it is endlessly fascinating. In Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, journalist Wendy Williams introduces one of the ocean’s most charismatic, monstrous, and enigmatic inhabitants: the squid. More than just calamari, squid species are fascinatingly odd creatures, with much to teach us about our own species.

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things.

On the brink of the Roman Invasion of Greece, the city of Corinth, well established as a mighty seat of power in the Achaean League, is threatened with impending destruction. Widespread colonization of the mainland has severed crucial supply chains and the need to establish a fruitful colony of their own has emerged. Aineias and his steersman, Pyrrhus, are the only sailors willing to take on the voyage.The men soon realize that the only hope they have of saving Corinth is to seek...the Kraken.

I’ve spent the past year suffering at the hands of the Sadistic Saints. They’ve done vile things to me, made my life a living nightmare. My only bright spot is my daughter, Ember. Until another club arrives. Kraken is different from any man I’ve ever met. He’s more than a decade older than me, but I don’t care. He makes me feel so many things, and I never want it to end. He said he’d take me with him, claim me as his own. I know the Sadistic Saints will never let me go, but I’ll risk it all to be with Kraken.