/lit/ - Literature

>>21592337
I've read all of them except Hydrogen Sonata and State of the Art. My favorite ones are:
Inversions (not even overtly a Culture novel except for a throwaway event near the end)
Look to Windward (just all around good)
Use of Weapons (definitely his best sci-fi novel but somewhat obtuse and a slow start)
and Consider Phlebas
If you want some other good similar sci-fi I'd recommend his non-Culture book The Algebraist and Verner Ving's A Fire Upon the Deep. Also the Gap Cycle by Stephen Donaldson is awesome but not really similar in theme.
Speaking of Donaldson, holy shit his new trilogy is dank. People who write him off because of Thomas Covenant really miss out on the rest of his books, he never writes the same book twice.

>>21359802
Too busy reading the new Donaldson book