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It reminded me of the meeting location at the start of The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks. [I seem to remember it was a sliver of a planet held around an exp
by arethuza 8y ago
It reminded me of the meeting location at the start of The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks.
[I seem to remember it was a sliver of a planet held around an exploding star used as a meeting location - largely because doing that kind of thing is cool if you are godlike AIs].
- arethuza 8y ago"The two craft met within the blast-shadow of the planetary fragment called Ablate, a narrow twisted scrue of rock three thousand kilometres long and shaped like the hole in a tornado." https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-hydrogen-sonata/ https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-hydrogen-sonat...