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Talking Squids in Outer Space
TalkingSquid Mentions on the Web
"...cephalopods — the class of invertebrates that includes squid, octopi and cuttlefish — are certainly tough to read. Intelligent, full of contradictions and infinitely flexible, squid and their cousins are unmistakably alien... so it is small wonder that science-fiction writers often use them as templates for off-world forms of sentient life." — A.M. Dellamonica
30 January 2008
"Cephalopods and sea people working together in harmony. Beautiful."
— Peggy
30 January 2008
"One hesitates to go in too deeply, lest one fail to resurface..."
Ansible 218
"...and it's not my fault, it's Vonda McIntyre's"
— Dave Langford
Ansible 193
"Yikes, it's all my fault then..."
— Stephen Baxter
Ansible 192
The inspiration...
"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!"
— JP, 17 August 2005
"...the hallmark of base and crass hack writing."
Jayme Lynn Blaschke, 16 August 2005
"...a good clearinghouse for the squid-obsessed among us"
Jeff Mariotte, 16 August 2006
Squids on the Web
Lolcat: I Has Been Ignoring Ur Squidz
Pavlov's Squid, Strange Brew, by John Deering (8 June 2006)
livesquidinabox.com: Invention & history
Penny Arcade: "Laser Squid Nemesis"
- Andromeda II Mascot
- The Squid Mystery Magazine cover, by Scott Stewart
Check out Star Wharfs and The Prawn for other undersea-theme cartoons.
Dark Vapor — Lord of the Squid!
"We at Space Squid don't want your best stuff. We want the crap you can't bring yourself to kill, because it's too pugnacious to die."
— The editors
