Feels extremely Obama-core but, shockingly, is Reagan and H.W.- and Clinton- and W.-core.

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>>24848509
Excellent. Thoughtful and imaginative.

>>24848523
This post of yours belong in a Fukuyama thread, anon. Try reading things before mouthing off about them

The Culture more like The Cunture am I right?
Player of Games and Use of Weapons are bretty good not gonna lie

>>24848556
Based and feral pilled

>>24848509
It's garbage like all science fiction.

I liked Excession solely because the smug commie gods get one-upped for the first time.

>>24848509
Top shelf sci-fi. Like the other anon said, thoughtful and imaginative. Every book has something to say, some commentary, some thought-provoking questions or themes. None of them read like shenanigans just for the sake of having another entry in a series, all are individual works.
And it doesn't get imaginatively lazy either, the scenes, settings, technologies always feel novel enough or crazy enough to be real. No lazy recourse to the shorthand of standardized sci-fi imagery.
In conclusion, it's ok.

>>24848509
I picked this up after Against a Dark Background but shortly put it down again. I imagine it picks up, especially throughout the series, but the main character and the start was just too off-putting for me.