How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub

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Published by Uncanny Magazine.

3 stars (1 review)

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/how-to-raise-a-kraken-in-your-bathtub/

2 editions

reviewed How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub by P. Djèlí Clark

What can go wrong with raising a Kraken in your bathtub?

3 stars

An entertaining story set in the Victorian-era, about an ambitious man who wants to quickly rise in his station. To achieve that, he pays for and receives the egg of a Kraken. When it hatches, it proves to have a voracious appetite, which leads to disaster when it eventually escapes. Tied up in the story is a backstory about a non-European bandit who has a submersible who wants to throw off the yoke of imperialism, and the enslavement of mermen.