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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 13, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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No love for Excession? That's got to be in my top 3 among the series.

I also loved Inversions, but IIRC it's about as far from the Culture parts of the Culture universe as you can get.

I found Look to Windward so uninteresting that I remember my annoyance with that better than I remember any of the plot.

Matter and certainly Surface Detail were both worth reading; perhaps better than Consider Phlebas, if you don't give the latter credit for introducing the whole universe.