Fifo Kaswiti
Assoc for Scottish Literaturex Don’t Make Me Tap The Sign (GSV, Plate class)
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“A small, short war that rarely extended throughout more than .02% of the galaxy by volume and .01% by stellar population”
—CONSIDER PHLEBAS, by #IainMBanks
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@scotlit you damn right I follow an account which expertly references #IainMBanks!
Semi Sentient AI Cooling Water@scotlit Just listened to audio book after way too long ago reading it. The Player of Games next.
Sequin World
donkey herder, fowl friend@donkeyherder @scotlit @cstross Rupert Murdoch lives to 120 and yet we lose people like Iain too soon.....all wrong!
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦@Lazarou @donkeyherder @scotlit @cstross
Don't forget Henry Kissinger, living proof that a benevolent god does not exist
Mermade@scotlit now that was a book. Sold on the opening quote:
"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."
And the rest did not disappoint.
Cooking optional (ROU)
DeterioratedStucco@scotlit
... which the Culture won.
... which the Culture won.
-dsr- (not a dog)It's not a good war until you can prove statistically "for it to be probable that more people would have died in the foreseeable and likely course of Idiran expansion than had in fact perished during the war."
Then it's justified, but probably still not good.
Resuna@scotlit Stares in Chelgrian.
Matt Austern@scotlit Darn, am I going to have to reread Consider Phlebas *again*?
Cadbury Moose