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This reminds me of Look to Windward, a Culture novel which features behemotaurs, creatures much larger than whales which are near immortal and have a very very
by carlob 11y ago
This reminds me of Look to Windward, a Culture novel which features behemotaurs, creatures much larger than whales which are near immortal and have a very very slow metabolism.
- ajuc 11y agoAlso Algebraist by the same author Ian Banks - there is a species living so slowly, that star travel is practical for them, so they are ubiquitus in the whole known universe.
- tfgg 11y agoAlso one of the intelligences encountered in Diaspora by Greg Egan. Actually, they just meet a localised handling agent that explains that they work for a star-spanning sentience - which is something the characters had been considering as a way of making themselves robust against civilisation-destroying gamma ray bursts, but dismissed on the grounds that it made everything so slow - though that links into the other theme in that book of simulated beings existing on very different timescales.