• Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      they’re TRIPODS too, i’ve never fully understood how the idirans properly look and frankly i don’t want to (i imagine something kind of like brutes from halo? but obv three legged, bigger, etc) shit rules.

      and the Affront! fucking metroid-ass floaty squid things

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        i’ve never fully understood how the idirans properly look and frankly i don’t want to

        Larry Niven had a gift for weird and imaginative aliens. I thought Idirans would look like pumped-up Puppeteers from the Ringworld series. I can totally see a Brute Puppeteers

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      Most of the Culture books focus on characters who either aren’t part of the Culture or at least didn’t originally come from it. Of the nine novels, only two (Player of Games and Excession) primarily focus on people born in the Culture.

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          There’s a little fuzz to it because multiple intertwining storylines are common in Culture books. Like in Use of Weapons, I’m counting the main character as Zakalwe, but there’s a whole Diziet Sma plotline going on in there too. Anaplian in Matter acts mostly as a Culture SC agent even though she’s a princess from an industrial age society. Look to Windward is about Quilan, but it’s also about Masaq’ Hub.