Kraken Calling: A Novel

Written by Aric McBay

Narrated by Eleanor Caudill

A sweeping near future dystopic fantasy in the Octavia Butlerian vein of the Parable of the Sower novels.

Political activist and anarchist author Aric McBay (Full Spectrum Resistance) toggles between the years 2028 and 2051 to give us the experience, with breathtaking realism, of what might happen in the span of just one generation to a society that is already on the brink of collapse.

In 2028 environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded, the revolution is brought to the activists, rather than the other way around, by an authoritarian government willing to resort to violence, willing to let the majority suffer from hunger and poverty, in order to control its citizens when the government can no longer provide them with a decent quality of life.

So it is the activists who must defend their communities, their neighbors, through a more humane and in some ways more conservative status quo of care and moderation.

And the outcome here is determined by the actions of those who resist more than it is by the actions of the nominally powerful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765045985

Aric McBay

Aric McBay is an organizer, a farmer, and author of seven books, including the novel Kraken Calling and the non-fiction Peak Oil Survival and Full Spectrum Resistance (2 vols.). He writes and speaks about effective social movements, and has organized campaigns around prisoner justice, Indigenous sovereignty, pipelines, unionization, and other causes.

Reviews for Kraken Calling

[Julie · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book at can be heavy to listen too at times. Overall I did enjoy this book but it did feel at times like it was two different books forced together. At the end I am not sure I understand how the government works. I thought there was one government they were fighting against but there ended up being a government that was higher up and didn't have any input in to the main governing body in the book. There are many characters, for the most part they are easy to tell apart but not all. I kept getting a few mixed up, because a chapter would feature certain characters and then you wouldn't see them for several chapters later. Each chapter focus on one part or a few characters, rarely did a character feature in more then one chapter at a time, before skipping to a new set of characters.