There’s a fairly obnoxious Culture / WH40K fanfic going on right now in the GiantITP Media sub-forum, and it seems that the Banks fans there are eating it up so there’s a decent chance it emulates his style well. Supposedly the author is going to collect and repost it to some Fan-Fic site in the next 20,000 years but don’t count on it.
I never had the stomach to read much of it; the tone is pretty jarring for a 40K fan, the ideology of the Culture has always struck me as heinous and it led out of a flame-war which almost got me banned, so there were some emotions there. You might be interested though.
Ah, it’s been a while since I did that “find some damn Culture fanfiction, it has to exist” project. Thanks for the link
the ideology of the Culture has always struck me as heinous
Yeah, me too. Still, the sheer number of the books I’ve read attests to the fact that they were astoundingly well-written, even so.
Of course, “we’re evil but also kinda the good guys” seems like it would fit right into the 40k universe, eh? People always claim that’s the theme of the Imperium, after all...
Yes, even taking into account that “enemies of the Culture always resemble modern Earth conservatives” seems to be a law of physics in the Culture universe. Must be the same parallel evolution that produces all those humanoid species.
There’s a fairly obnoxious Culture / WH40K fanfic going on right now in the GiantITP Media sub-forum, and it seems that the Banks fans there are eating it up so there’s a decent chance it emulates his style well. Supposedly the author is going to collect and repost it to some Fan-Fic site in the next 20,000 years but don’t count on it.
I never had the stomach to read much of it; the tone is pretty jarring for a 40K fan, the ideology of the Culture has always struck me as heinous and it led out of a flame-war which almost got me banned, so there were some emotions there. You might be interested though.
Link to page-o-links for story: http://sync.in/ep/pad/view/ro.f7Ii2bq8IM01rFxsOm/latest
Ah, it’s been a while since I did that “find some damn Culture fanfiction, it has to exist” project. Thanks for the link
Yeah, me too. Still, the sheer number of the books I’ve read attests to the fact that they were astoundingly well-written, even so.
Of course, “we’re evil but also kinda the good guys” seems like it would fit right into the 40k universe, eh? People always claim that’s the theme of the Imperium, after all...
Yes, even taking into account that “enemies of the Culture always resemble modern Earth conservatives” seems to be a law of physics in the Culture universe. Must be the same parallel evolution that produces all those humanoid species.