Having watched the finale of Battlestar Galactica, I’m going to assume the awful slog that the Colonials and Cylons were put through was the doings of a Culture Mind with a mean streak and a sense of humor.
The Victorian Culture
May 3, 2008 – 8:32 pm
I found an airship avatar at Grendel’s Children.
It’s great for tooling around Steampunk sims like Babbage Square.
And as you see in the photo below, it’s small. Great for days you want to be a Steampunk version of a drone from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels.
Hey, wait, I was on a GSV with that guy.
Just Another Village of the Damned
April 29, 2007 – 2:36 am
While I was not exactly the audience they had in mind, three things in Hot Fuzz made me smile:
Desk sergeant reading a Iain Banks novel.
Pub playing Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me).
Skellingtons reference.
Dana Stevens has the best summary of the movie: Hot Fuzz is like an Agatha Christie novel directed by Michael Bay and [...]