Third one in the series, and the best so far, even if the Ruritanian comic opera dimension is sometimes a bit annoying. Nice the way that we have an outsider to guide us into experiencing The Culture, so that things can be explained without the need for an omniscient narrator, and nice the way that she's related to the story of what's going on in the main Sursamen-based narrative. We also get a better explanation of the hierarchy of civilisations (and species) and how they fit together. I'll read the others. I don't love them, but I like them.
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