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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unsung" data-source="post: 6610782" data-attributes="member: 6781406">No big rush. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> [MENTION=40413]GlassEye[/MENTION] Look To Windward (and then Surface Detail) would probably be the books I'd recommend for you after Player of Games. Those issues and how they figure into the Culture's universe are the main subject of the story-- but don't make that into a homework assignment or anything. Most of the books deal with death and war in some capacity, by the nature of the Culture's particular stance against them and its paradoxical way of dealing with them. I'd love to hear more about any non-Culture civilization you've got in mind. How do they stack up in terms of technology? You say they're conservative, but in what ways? If he's pushed beyond the limits of what his home civ will accept, what is his current status with his own people?</blockquote>