I would argue Consider Phlebus suffered from “early installment weirdness”, and feels not very Culture-y. As someone else said below, I truly enjoyed Excession

I would argue Consider Phlebus suffered from “early installment weirdness”, and feels not very Culture-y. As someone else said below, I truly enjoyed Excession, but it’s perhaps too Culture-y. Lots of Minds, and then humans that are kind of awful.