No really, Talking Squids in Outer Space is just that. A web site devoted to squids in SF. I have to admit that my squid SF reading is sadly lacking. Although, I have read Manifold: Time and the first two books in the Rifters Series by Peter Watts, and squids were in Galaxy Quest? I must have missed them or, more likely, have forgotten.
Who knew that cephalodpods were so versatile? A tasty (so I'm told) appetizer and intrepid space explorers. Not bad for a creature with no spine!
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Posted by JP Frantz at Wednesday August 17, 2005 at 12:52 PM
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Well, they miss at least one "squids in space" book, Childhood's End by Clarke.
If you want to expand it to squids in SF, then they also missed a couple of Clarke short stories, plus the novels Deep Range, The Ghost from Grand Banks and Dolphin Island as well.
I think Lester Del Rey's Attack from Atlantis may have had some squid in it as well.
I'll bet that Jack Williamson and Fred Pohl's "Undersea" trilogy had a squid or three, but I haven't read them since the early 1970's, so the details are more than a tad fuzzy at this point.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday August 25, 2005 at 6:10 PM at 6:10 PM
Oh yes. Never poke a squid in the ink sac. It's a law of the sea.
(Parent's may understand where that comes from.)
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday August 25, 2005 at 6:11 PM at 6:11 PM
[NOTE: Vonda N. McIntyre, sf author and owner of Talking Squids in Outer Space sent this via email - John]
I'm always glad to have new titles for Talking Squids in Outer Space. Email me titles, quotations, URLs of excerpts or ebooks, squid sightings, and I'll add them as soon as I can.
Some of the books don't have talking squids in outer space, but employ cephalopods in more general capacities (that's why there's a Talking Squids in Outer Space section and a Here Be Squids section). I'm fond of the critters and didn't want to leave any out.
New on Talking Squids: News reports from the real world (the Squid News link on the home page).
Best,
Vonda
Posted by Vonda N. McIntyre on Wednesday September 28, 2005 at 7:39 AM at 7:39 AM