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Re:List of spacecraft in the Culture series by hkt on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:56PM (#13010994)
Fun fact: "Consider phlebas" and "Look to windward" are both phrases appearing in T S Eliot's poem "The Wasteland".

They're the only two titles drawn from the poem, so I find it particularly interesting that you mentioned the way that they're more directly referential than other works. Makes me think I should try a closer reading of both.

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Re:List of spacecraft in the Culture series by lobster_johnson on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:02PM (#13015462)
Yes, it's a "sequel" of sorts — in the weakest possible sense — to Consider Phlebas, so it's not an accident that he used another line from the same poem.
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