Culture ship ‘Mistake Not’ is one of Bank’s most memorable characters.🚀
Mistake Not is short for: ‘Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath’, an Eccentric Offensive Unit
It’s wonderful to hear Peter Kenney *repeatedly* perform Mistake Not’s full name in Ship conversations of the Audible ‘Hydrogen Sonata’
This is a list of spacecraft found in the Culture novels and short stories by Iain M. Banks. Most ships in this list are members of The Culture, the hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In this setting, each Culture ship, and some others, is also an artificial intelligence with a distinctive personality. Many of these ships are significant characters in the novels.[1] The machine intelligences called Minds (and, as a consequence, the Culture starships that they inhabit) usually...
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