I’ve been trying to go to the library and read more but I’m out of ideas for what to read next. Help plz.

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The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks

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Oh, yeah. Whole Culture series.

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Absolutely. My favorites are Surface Detail and Excession, but I think Player of Games is the best entry point to the series.

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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

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Plenty of Culture books to recommend, what’s your favorite?

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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 anything

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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.

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