by cmsellers » Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:10 pm
Keep in mind that I don't like ketchup, even on French fries.
It is, but you might have an easier time finding the book he developed it into: Blue World. Both are somewhat hard to find in libraries, though I have both in dead tree form (my father has a pulp version of Blue World I stole from him), while "The Kragen" is in Robert Silverberg's collection of the best short SF of 1965, which I bought. It's a science fiction book, so Vance's kragen is different from mythological kraken, but is still a giant, tentacled sea monster.