Best ship name in the Culture series?

[Clockworkbot]

Fun Fact: billionaire and celebrity sci-fi nerd Elon Musk named SpaceX's two Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships (rocket landing pads) after Minds from Player of Games: Of Course I Still Love You and Just Read the Instructions.

 

[James]

And the recently-spacebound Tesla roadster had a dashboard ode to the late Douglas Adams.

My favourite ship name: Resistance is Character-Forming (Look to Windward)

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

"Mindy McMindface"

 

[Swank]

IMO the Ship's names are best bit of the Culture novels.

Backhanded compliment?


I have always had a soft spot for What Are The Civilian Applications? from Use of Weapons. Also quite like Frank Exchange of Views from a Psychopath class Rapid Offensive Unit.

 

[Swank]

BTW, here's the complete list for your shopping pleasure:

List of spacecraft

This is a list of spacecraft found in the Culture novels and short stories by Iain M. Banks. Most ships in this list are members of The Culture, the hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In this setting, each Culture ship, and some others, is also an artificial intelligence with a...

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[Toby Frost]

I think I must be about the only person in the galaxy who doesn't find the Banks spaceship names hilarious.

(I like the Culture books, though.)

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Anticipation of a New Lovers Arrival...or did I imagine that one?

Sounds like an erotic ukiyo-e print.