Excession is my personal favorite. Focuses heavily on an existential threat to the Culture and dives very very deep into the AI politics that keeps it chugging along. Consider Phlebas is more of a "outsider looking in" type book to the Culture, and doesn't really dive in to the Culture itself.
Excession is my personal favorite. Focuses heavily on an existential threat to the Culture and dives very very deep into the AI politics that keeps it chugging along. Consider Phlebas is more of a "outsider looking in" type book to the Culture, and doesn't really dive in to the Culture itself.