Culture Ship Randomizer · A gravitas free zone.
For when you just have to name something after a Culture General Systems Vehicle …or maybe a General Contact Unit.
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Immaterials, dConstruct and Culture Ships on Vimeo
Iain M.Banks and dConstruct, together at last.
A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks
I’ve linked to this before, but with the death of Iain M Banks it’s worth re-reading this fascinating insight into The Culture, one of science fictions’s few realistic utopias.
The brief mention here of The Culture’s attitude to death is apt:
Philosophy, again; death is regarded as part of life, and nothing, including the universe, lasts forever. It is seen as bad manners to try and pretend that death is somehow not natural; instead death is seen as giving shape to life.
A Few Notes on the Culture
A great 1994 newsgroup posting by Iain M Banks that gives us a peek behind the scenes of the Culture: fascinating and fun.