title: Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
author:  Wendy Williams 
description: "Williams is a fine writer and takes us on an engaging and informative journey through the world of cephalopod science..." --- John Farndon, The Spectator<br /><br />"The giant squid is now accepted as a fact of oceanic life and I have been revelling in all squid in the recently published American book <i>Kraken...."<br /> </i>Simon Barnes, <i>The Times of London</i>
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  Terry Pratchett
  
  Jingo
  
  A Novel of Discworld®
  
    
  
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  > > > To all the fighters for peace
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  [Begin Reading](part0004.html#filepos1799)
  
  [About the Author](part0013.html#filepos802064)
  
  [Praise](part0014.html#filepos802743)
  
  [Other Books by Terry Pratchett](part0015.html#filepos808050)
  
  [Copyright](part0016.html#filepos811806)
  
  [About the Publisher](part0017.html#filepos813223)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Begin Reading](part0003.html#filepos942)
  
  It was a moonless night, which was good for the purposes of Solid Jackson.
  
  He fished for Curious Squid, so called because, as well as being squid, they
  were curious. That is to say, their curiosity was the curious thing about
  them.
  
  Shortly after they got curious about the lantern that Solid had hung over the
  stern of his boat, they started to become curious about the way in which
  various of their number suddenly vanished skyward with a splash.
  
  Some of them even became curious—very briefly cur