Iain M Banks being usually prescient in „Look To Windward“ (2000): #IainMBanks #TheCulture #Culture #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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@felixorx.bsky.socialIain M Banks being usually prescient in „Look To Windward“ (2000): #IainMBanks #TheCulture #Culture #SciFi #ScienceFiction
@naomhan-s.bsky.socialEvery Dune reader knows the one rule: never fire a lasgun at a shield.
The target was unshielded. Three instruments agreed.
Paul's order to raise it had arrived twelve minutes earlier.
Chapters 23 and 24 are up.
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#fanfic #Dune #TheCulture
@naomhan-s.bsky.socialPaul knows exactly which woman fed Chani the evidence.
One question and he'd have her name.
He writes an order that bans a whole category of people instead, so he never has to ask.
Chapter 22: A Shape Without Faces
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#fanfic #Dune #TheCulture
@naomhan-s.bsky.social“End the exercise,” she said.
“The local field source does not hold termination authority.”
A Culture Mind has found a problem it likes.
Chapter 21: The Model That Wants an Answer
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#fanfic #Dune #TheCulture
@naomhan-s.bsky.socialLededje tells a Culture Mind to stop modelling Paul Atreides.
It stops.
Then it carries on, under the name “calibration.”
Chapter 21: The Model That Wants an Answer
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#fanfic #Dune #TheCulture
@naomhan-s.bsky.socialChapter 20: Proof of the Design
Chani proves the Bene Gesserit planted the question that made Paul a prophet.
“My son did not become less necessary because a witch wrote a prayer.”
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#crossover #fanfic #Dune #TheCulture
@naomhan-s.bsky.social“I have opened a category. It is currently called PERSON TO WHOM FIELD AUTHORITY OWES THE TRUTH. The capitalization is automatic and perhaps unhelpful.”
“Do not make this funny.”
“I am not. That is why the category is appalling.”
@naomhan-s.bsky.socialPaul Atreides takes the throne. At the end of every future left to him he sees a civilization of thinking machines. He turns his Jihad on it.
The Culture's agents are already on Arrakis.
A complete Culture/Dune novel.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/93038326
@scifiscavenger.bsky.socialHi Folks, new video 🎥! I take a closer look at one of the more fascinating concepts in Iain M Banks Culture series. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #theculture
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@gcu-grey-area.bsky.socialLoad up the Bofors gun, and let ‘em have it - eight rounds rapid? #theculture #unit
@csanberg.bsky.socialGlad to have completed my journey through #TheCulture books. Some highs and lows personally across the series, but I got something out of every story. It's a shame Banks is no longer with us to carry on w/ more.
Highly recommend for the hard sci-fi lovers out there who haven't yet taken the ride.
@csanberg.bsky.socialFinished The Hydrogen Sonata and my journey through Iain M. Banks' #TheCulture books.
Fitting that as the books progressed through various aspects and facets of the universe Banks created, the final book deals w/ a society Subliming to another plane of existence.