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Dwellers are a fictional species featured in ''The Algebraist'', a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks. As described in the novel, Dwellers are extremely long-lived inhabitants of gas giant planets (like Jupiter, although that particular planet is described in the book as not having enough water for them). ==Anatomy== Immature Dwellers are described as anorexic manta rays〔p. 207〕 and stay in this form for about a century. Adult Dwellers are described as consisting of two discs, similar to a yo-yo, with various appendages at edges and hubs including two long spindle arms. They are large in adulthood, with small examples being about five meters in diameter and larger examples ranging up to ten meters. They are neutrally buoyant in a gas giant's atmosphere, and move by rotation of their disks, called "roting". Their long lifespan (individuals can live for billions of years,〔p. 263〕 the species has existed for ten billion) has made them anarchic and wise. They use the idea of kudos to define their sense of value within a society,〔p. 230〕 and will trade or bet kudos like money. They claim that they have existed since the "First Diaspora", roughly two and a half billion years after the creation of the universe.〔p. 158〕 Dwellers are male for 90% of the lifespan, turning briefly female in order to have children.〔p. 218〕 Dwellers do not care for their children after birth; the children are often taken into slavery or hunted down as game.〔p. 62〕 Aborted children are kept as pets.〔p. 260〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dweller (Banks)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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