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Comment by arethuza | Hacker News Reader

I'd dearly love to see something based on the Culture books - though I appreciate that stories about atheistic, space faring, hedonistic, drug taking communists who are more or less kept as pets by god-like AIs might make the pitch a bit tricky to anyone other than the BBC...

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Basically any existing TV show or movie can already be considered part of Culture verse. Take any character and imagine it works for Contact.

Hey, this is a fun game. Some ideas:

Game of Thrones - Varys

The Expanse - Chrisjen Avasarala. Or maybe her bodyguard, Cotyar.

Narcos - Bill Strechner

Archer - Lana Kane

So who on HN is a Contact/SC agent then?

(Wait - Elon Musk - it's obvious! ;-)

He is suspiciously against AI.

Cue the "outrage dollar" but you could be right there...

The most far-out sci-fi needs to be read anyhow – so many images today, so little imagination.

"Be conservative in what you choose to binge-watch and be more liberal in taking time to read instead."

I'd rather like to have a snarky SC drone (if that's not a tautology) voiced by Peter Capaldi in a detuned Malcolm Tucker mode. The Scottish accent would, of course, be appropriate...

I quite like that idea, although I guess in my head the drones were more a cynical Received Pronunciation, like Daniel Craig’s Bond.

For some reason your suggestion makes me think of a drone with the voice of Kenneth Williams.....

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