{"id":908,"date":"2003-02-17T23:52:38","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T07:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/17\/908.html"},"modified":"2003-02-17T23:52:38","modified_gmt":"2003-02-18T07:52:38","slug":"banksian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/02\/17\/banksian\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New game: come up with names for starships like the ones in Iain M. Banks's <cite>Culture<\/cite> novels.  See a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatingplanet.net\/phlebas\/text\/ships.html\">Culture ships<\/a> mentioned in the novels to get the general idea.  Here are a few of mine, more or less off the top of my head:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Massive Repercussions<\/li>\n<li>Envy of the Fleet<\/li>\n<li>Whisper of Wind on Water<\/li>\n<li>To Be or Not to Be<\/li>\n<li>Consider the Lilies of the Field<\/li>\n<li>Standing in My Own Way<\/li>\n<li>Young Pretender<\/li>\n<li>Bear With Me<\/li>\n<li>End of an Era<\/li>\n<li>Tremendous Progress Is Being Made<\/li>\n<li>Wish for Snow<\/li>\n<li>Way of the World<\/li>\n<li>Not with a Bang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I've been seeing ships with Banksian names in other science fiction recently; I assume that's in intentional homage to Banks.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New game: come up with names for starships like the ones in Iain M. Banks&#8217;s Culture novels. See a list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}