Culture (3 books in series)

Consider Phlebas (1987)
language
English
author
3.83 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: The ending is very strong, and the world is well-realized. Other aspects are wanting. Support characters are pretty bland and do stupid things for no reason. The main character oscillates somewhat arbitrarily between empathizing and sociopathic (although to be fair, the oscill...
Surface Detail (2010)
language
English
author
4.16 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: I am a warship. This is my nature; this is what I'm designed and build for. My moment of glory approaches and you can't expect me not to be excited at the prospect. I was fully expecting to spend my operational life just twiddling my metaphorical thumbs in the middle of empty now...
The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)
language
English
author
4.06 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: Loved loved loved this book! I'm always excited to read a new Culture novel, but I found this one particularly enjoyable, mostly because I liked the main character so much. My only issue was in trying to keep the names of the ship Minds straight, but I always have trouble with th...