>>1548826I've read Use of Weapons, Excession, Algebraist, Consider Phlebas, Matter and Look to Windward.
I read them all in a line so for a long time I was submerged in the Culture universe, baffled by Minds and so on. Some of the greatest books ever, each one a dreamworld and they got a lot better because I would smoke weed while reading them.
Later I moved on to future Shocklevel 4 science fiction starting out with Diaspora by Greg Egan and later everey other book Egan has written. After that, I've sadly, never really been able to enjoy Ian Banks and Alastair Reynolds the same way.