Dweller (Banks)

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 living inhabitants of gas giant planets, similar to the Solar system's Jupiter, which is described in the book as not having enough water for them.From birth Dwellers are described as anorexic manta rays 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 (15 feet) in diameter and larger examples ranging up to ten meters (30 feet). They are neutrally buoyant in a gas giant's atmosphere, and move by rotation of their disks, called "roting".
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