Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’

Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by tempguy9999 on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:02AM (#19898392)

I think Banks might have been quite pleased with 'semi-extrinsic', actually.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by hugofirth on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:39AM (#19898646)

I suspect you will thoroughly enjoy this twitter account: https://twitter.com/cultureshipname?lang=en

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by sundvor on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:57PM (#19906415)

Subbed. One of my favourite fictive ship name would be an Adams one: GSV Mostly Harmless.

Was great to see the replies, user names. :) Also the number of votes tells there's a large number of people who must really miss Banks (RIP). It's been a while so I will start re-reading the Culture series soon, chronologically this time. A number were lost paperbacks, but will just add them to my Kindle collection.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by 0_gravitas on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:12AM (#19928659)

If you hadn't yet, I recommend picking up his book of poetry that was posthumously released along side his longtime friend Ken MacLeod's poems. A lot of it is Banks to the core, including the humor. My favorite is cynically titled "Love Poem":

Serene,

In a world full of troubles.

i.e. doing nothing about it.

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