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I'm pretty sure Banks is responsible for more than ~3 ideas across all of SF. From Drug glands to The Sublimed. Gridfire to Gelsuits to GSVs. Special Circumst
by ctoth 2y ago
I'm pretty sure Banks is responsible for more than ~3 ideas across all of SF.
From Drug glands to The Sublimed. Gridfire to Gelsuits to GSVs.
Special Circumstances itself seems like an innovation.
- eesmith 2y agoDrug glands? George Alec Effinger, 'When Gravity Fails', 1986, https://archive.org/details/whengravityfails00effi/page/72/mode/2up?q=gland https://archive.org/details/whengravityfails00effi/page/72/m... > Bill selected a more subtle, more frightening bodmod: He had one of his lungs removed and replaced with a large, artificial gland that dripped a perpetual, measured quantity of some fourth-generation psychedelic drug into his bloodstream. At some point you need to wonder what "idea" means, like, what is the idea of a GSV? A giant FTL vessel? The Death Star is one of those. In the Dr. Who episode 'The Pirate Planet' we find the planet they are on is actually a spaceship made of a hollowed-out planet. Add enough qualifiers and eventually you get something unique.