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Not squid, octipodes. Anyway, he does an excellent job of extrapolating from the actual quirks of each animal into a culture and then playing with how those cultures would or wouldn't get along.

His other SciFi is also great.

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I'm delighted that I'm not the only person who uses Greek pluralization for a Greek word.

I'm still a nerd, but at least I have company :)

Cheers fellow nerd! I like to pronounce it so that it rhymes with Parmenides, and then imagine that they have a society full of aquatic philosophers (I'm a bit out of step with Tchaikovsky's view on that front).

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