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Re:The Culture Novels as a Dystopia by rsynnott on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:34AM (#45260439)
> while - from a vague memory of one of the Culture books - chasing successfully a list with what turned out to be coordinates of all stars in a region of space

That wasn't a Culture novel; it was in The Algebraist, and that society was almost an anti-Culture (highly hierarchical, quasi-capitalist, religious, racist/speciesist).

Re:The Culture Novels as a Dystopia by synergy7 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:46AM (#45263836)
Thank you for the correction. I wasn’t completely sure that "a list" was really all there was to it, but turns out I was mistaken maybe in a more important part of that sentence.