Re: FT: Ship Names

>My names mostly come from books by Iain Banks (Culture Works) , Ian
Hamilton
>(Nightsdawn) and Stephen Donaldson (Gap Series).  These include such
great
>names as; Tranquil Hegemony, The Ends of Invention, Gut Buster, Lux
>Interior, Calm Horizons and No More Mr Nice Guy.

My favorite Culturesque name is: You Look Like a Nail.

That's class, there.

Right now, all of my ships have serial numbers -- M17, X22, B86, and
suchlike.  

I have a plan, though, at least for my New Bavarian Republic ships. 
Each
class will be named after one of the paintings of the great French
Surrealist, Rene Magritte.  They make wonderful ship names, and include:

Attempting the Impossible
Reconnaissance Without End
A Variation of Sadness
After the Water, the Clouds
The Art of Conversation
The Beneficial Promise
Celestial Perfections
The Cultivation of Ideas
The Devil's Smile
The Dominion of Light
Figure Brooding on Madness
Flowers of the Abyss
The Garment of Adventure
The Glass Key
The Good example
Heraclitus's Bridge
The Horrendous Stopper
The Importance of Marvels
In praise of the Dialectic
Lesson from the Tenebrae
The Man in the Bowler Hat
The Midnight Marriage
The Muscles of the Sky
The Mysteries of the Horizon
On the Threshold of Freedom
The Ordeal of Sleep
The Phantom Landscape
This is not an Apple
The Treachery of Images

...and so forth.

John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com