Book description
AWAKEN, TERROR!
When the first expedition descended to the bottom of the Atlantic in a
perfected high-pressure diving bell, their speculation ran wild as to
the wonders they would encounter in that unknown sea-bottom world.
But their wildest dreams did not prepare them for uncovering first, the
stones of an ancient civilization, and second, the monstrous body of an
inhuman creature that had been sealed beneath the waters for countless
eons.
Then, at the height of their excitement, elation turned to horror. For
they had brought back an abomination so old that the memory of it had
been lost to man's remotest ancestors. Shops were disappearing, men and
women were becoming enslaved by invisible whips of mental mastery, and
it began to look as if it might be beyond the powers even of modern
science to stop something that had so successfully defied time and
space. John Brunner (1934-1995) was a prolific British SF writer. In
1951, he published his first novel, Galactic Storm, at the age of just
17, and went on to write dozens of novels under his own and various
house names until his death in 1995 at the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the
Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Award for Stand on Zanzibar
(a regular contender for the 'best SF novel of all time') and the
British Science Fiction Award for The Jagged Orbit.
