RecursiveParadox

Skaffen-Amtiskaw certainly didn’t.

Yep. And I’d of of course for “Mistake Not.” The scene at the end of THS when it lowers its shields to let the supposedly equivi-tech ship get a peek under the covers.

Well the op on this said friend not weapon because Drones are fully sentient and autonomous lifeforms in the Culture. Remember only the true misfits get sent to Special Circumstances, and when heavily armed drones become misfits in a culture (small c) where anything goes, that would tell you something.

You got an armored bear friend to do repairs?

Original credit to William Gibson of course.

Knife missile faster, cleaner and can be equally whimsical (opening scene of UoW).

1984 and it’s spiritual prequel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .

These books opened up my teen mind to the fact that we are always, individually and as a society, creating, editing, and manipulating consensual reality.

Unfortunately the bad guys are way ahead of us on the manipulation bit, and with LLMs/Gen-AI I fear a total collapse of consensual reality. But if we have enough Hunter S’s in the world, we may still be in the fight.