Consider Phelbas is good but as the first culture book it would have been the introduction of the culture/ship ai ideas for people which would have made a big i

Consider Phelbas is good but as the first culture book it would have been the introduction of the culture/ship ai ideas for people which would have made a big impact. unfortunately I read it after going through a lot of Iain Banks' books such as The State of the Art, The Crow Road, The Bridge and Feersum Endjinn, and found it to be just ok.