Andrew Leonard’s June 10th column, in Salon, pays tribute to Ian M. Banks, the popular science fiction author who died of cancer on Sunday. Leonard takes, “a plunge into the poetry of Ian M. Banks’ Culture spaceships” by listing the names of “the awesome, meddlesome, cantankerous and benevolent spaceships” that populate Banks’ novels:
Prosthetic Conscience
Irregular Apocalypse
Unfortunate Conflict of Interest
Gunboat Diplomat
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
A Series of Unlikely Explanations
Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
Jaundiced Outlook
Frank Exchange of Views
Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill
Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints
Abundance of Onslaught
Refreshingly Unconcerned With the Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity
A Fine Disregard For Awkward Facts
The entire article can be read here.
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