New word of the day: Blanet—a member of a class of exoplanets that directly orbit black holes.
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@cstross a missed opportunity for "blahnet" imo
Hope to see blanets in a future book. If not you, maybe @gregeganSF
@cstross That doesn’t sound healthy.
@cstross So, they have a 🎶 Black Hole Sun 🎶 Won't you come ...
@cstross Ooh, and just a couple of wikipedia steps to “Necroplanetology“! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7fa0
@zarfeblong @cstross shhhh don't give him ideas
You know 20 years from now somebody is going to be all "At last, we have created the necroplanet, as featured in Charles Stross's novella Please For The Love Of Cthulhu Don't Create The Necroplanet You Absolute Stooges"
@cstross And presumably, if orbiting a neutron star, a nanet.
