@sneerclub

Greetings!

Roko called, just to say he’s filed a trademark on Basilisk™ and will be coming after anyone who talks about it for licensing fees which will go into his special Basilisk™ Immanetization Fund and if we don’t pay up we’ll burn in AI hell forever once the Basilisk™ wakes up and gets around to punishing us.

Also, if you see your mom, be sure and tell her SATAN!!!—

  • Jonathan Hendry
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    41 year ago

    @gerikson

    That’s why I think Against a Dark Background would be better for a series. It’s stand-alone but has some of the flavor of the Culture novels (the Lazy Gun, androids, etc), and it’s structured as a series of heists, and the whole time the protagonist is being hunted by a cult that also killed her mother.

    • @gerikson
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      31 year ago

      I agree Against a Dark Background would be better! Who would make it though? Banks is still kinda unknown, even if his work is probably as well known as Gibson’s (probably the most mainstream SF author writing now), and Gibson only recently got a TV adaptation with The Peripheral. So marketing Banks without using his “signature IP”, i.e. the Culture, would be hard.

      Practically speaking it would be easier to make a new IP only loosely based on the idea of a woman being targeted by a cult for a year and a day, and filing off the serial numbers so to speak.

      Anyway, I’m not a huge fan of A/V adaptions of the works I like. I’ve not seen The Peripheral show, but then I didn’t think The Peripheral was that good as a book (and the second book was terrible).