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# excession is OK...
but the original first three Culture books are awesome - Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and the Player of Games.

Genuinely special. Read immediately!
(, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:29, archived)
# as below,
I like the books about ships as they are a lot more morally ambiguous than the others. I guess sociologically, they seem to be a (accurate) extrapolation of our cultures, but I love the ships. Anything with a name like "fate amenable to change" and "ethics gradient" are friends of mine.
(, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:31, archived)
# i think you should both read
Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix. the whole time i was reading excession i was thinking, "this is good, but nowhere near as good as schismatrix"
(, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:47, archived)
# I love Sterling...
top man.

Returning to where this started... I loved Cryptonomicon. Really blew me away.
(, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 20:05, archived)