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The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
Oh, yeah. Whole Culture series.
Absolutely. My favorites are Surface Detail and Excession, but I think Player of Games is the best entry point to the series.
I was gonna recommend the Culture!
uhhh, the Expanse series is cool too. not as based commie but it's fun if kinda depressing scifi
Plenty of Culture books to recommend, what's your favorite?
Excession is my favourite but it's not a good one to start with in my opinion.
Consider phlebas is a pretty straightforward one. It's got a normal timeline and does a good job of introducing the culture and their history.
Don't sleep on his non culture SciFi story the algebraist either, it's excellent.
If I had read Consider Phlebas first I probably would not have read the rest of the Culture series, I really strongly dislike it. After reading other Culture books, it does have some interesting stuff about the Idiran war, but it's so atypical, and the main character so fundamentally unlikable, that it makes the worst possible introduction to the series.
Player of Games is good! I started with Consider Phlebas which I quite enjoyed but Use of Weapons stuck out to me when I was first reading them!
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I may have had to read it twice to keep the intersecting plots straight but that's my own ADHD more than anythingA lot of Culture books hit better on the second read
Consider Phlebas is skippable tbqh but it definitely exists