Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked by D.H. on April 30, 2021
I have just read the Iain M Banks short story Descendant, part of the anthology The State Of The Art. It features technologies reminiscent of the Culture stories, such as an intelligent suit with 1.0 level AI, drones and knife missiles. Did the great man ever declare any connection between this story and the Culture?
I don't think it needs to be explicitly stated by the author; it's clearly a Culture story:
All of these objects are Culture tech, mentioned in multiple other books:
Use of Weapons:
“A knife missile?” Sma looked suitably amazed. She rubbed her chin with one hand.
“Quite a late model, too,” the drone said. “Nanoguns, monofilament warps, effector; point seven value brain.”
...
He scanned the skies for the module.
Matter:
The monofilament wires which still attached each of the little warps to the knife missile
...
“That’s from the trailing scout missile,” Turminder Xuss said. Another screen flickered next to the first. “This is from the knife missile itself.”
A Gift from the Culture:
I am a Light Plasma Projector, model LPP 91 ... Brain value point one.
Excession:
for this sort of technical gee-whizzery meant that according to Culture convention the suit had to be sentient. Genar-Hofoen had insisted on a model with the intelligence fixed at the lower limit of the acceptable intellectual range
Correct answer by endolith on April 30, 2021
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