Squid and octopus are favoured creatures in science fiction. I see lots of threads about cephs in SF movies, etc but none about them in books.... aside from HP Lovecraft of course. :cthulhu:

What brought this topic to mind was seeing this

http://www.baen.com/covers/0743435648.jpg

on the new books shelf. I managed not to buy it but still....

What are some other SF books with cephs in them? I know Arthur C. Clarke had giant squids in one of his novels...and the Russian duo of Arkady and Boris Strugatskii featured cephs at least 2 or 3 times...who else?

Hi Snafflehound,

We found a couple more covers in this old thread:

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1383&highlight=arthur+c+ clarke

I'm sure there were plenty of fifties SF Pulp magazines with cephs on the cover wielding death-rays and kidnapping women!

Phil