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One of the clever things that Ian M. Banks did in his Culture series was naming military ship classes. So rather than "Liberator", he had "Torturer", "Gangster"
by chiph 12y ago
One of the clever things that Ian M. Banks did in his Culture series was naming military ship classes. So rather than "Liberator", he had "Torturer", "Gangster", and "Psychopath" classes of ship.
- tfgg 12y agoThose names make me think more of British ship names[1], which tend to be more aggressive, which makes sense given Bank's nationality. Also the background of The Culture trying to be taken more seriously by other civilisations who thought they were too soft. A sort of "We might be soft, but we can make machines that definitely aren't". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astute-class_submarine#Boats_of_the_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astute-class_submarine#Boats_o...