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Meet the droneships "Read The Instructions" and "Of Course I Still Love You"
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/elon-musk-iain-m-banks-just-read-the-instructionsThe Culture-novels of Iain M. Banks are a staple of science-fiction literature. One kind of protagonists in those novels are huge spaceships piloted by powerful AIs with a rather strange taste for choosing their name. The ships "Read The Instructions" and "Of Course I Still Love You" were mentioned in the novel "Player of Games".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
SpaceX is currently developing mobile robotic seaborne landing-platforms for their rockets. Elon Musk chose to honor the late Iain Banks and name two of the droneships after those two spaceships.
