The Kraken Wakes

Matthew James Seidel is a musician and writer currently based in Rochester, New York. His essays and reviews have been featured in The Millions, Jacobin, Protean Magazine, Liberated Texts, Ebb Magazine, Current Affairs, and AlterNet.

Matthew James Seidel

The First Climate Fiction Masterpiece: On John Wyndham’s 1953 Novel “The Kraken Wakes”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Matthew James Seidel is a musician and writer currently based in Rochester, New York. His essays and reviews have been featured in The Millions, Jacobin, Protean Magazine, Liberated Texts, Ebb Magazine, Current Affairs, and AlterNet.