Leslie Knope for me!

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Any of the Minds from Iain M. Banks Culture series, because that would mean the Culture was real and I want to live there.

    I guess for a specific one, maybe the Arbitrary? That one seems pretty chill and knows where Earth is:

    Also while I’d been away, the ship had sent a request on a postcard to the BBC’s World Service, asking for ‘Mr David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” for the good ship Arbitrary and all who sail in her.’ (This from a machine that could have swamped Earth’s entire electro-magnetic spectrum with whatever the hell it wanted from somewhere beyond Betelgeuse.) It didn’t get the request played. The ship thought this was hilarious.

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      The Culture does not get mentioned enough. I’m hoping it gets made into a TV series one day, to get additional visibility.

      (An actual adaptation, not whatever tf they did to WoT and the Foundation).