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Iain M. Banks created the Culture, a post-scarcity interstellar society of humanoids, other species and artificial intelligences that include the Minds, for a series of space opera novels and short stories. Most of the stories follow people at the society's edges, such as diplomats, spies and mercenaries, who deal with other civilizations.
A profile titled The Novelist Who Inspired Elon Musk reported that SpaceX named two of its rocket landing barges after sentient ships from the Culture books.
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Elon Musk (Founder/SpaceX)
SpaceX, the rocketry firm he founded in 2002, owns two ocean-going barges that serve as mobile landing pads for its rockets. One is called Just Read the Instructions, the other Of Course I Still Love You. Both are named after sentient spaceships in the “Culture” books, all of which have similarly playful names (one warship, which spends most of its time waiting idly to be called up for action, is called the Killing Time.)
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