Great, and now I'm listening to a medieval fantasy tale, when I want to listen to sci-fi. I can't decide if the decision to leave the Culture only alluded to a good one or not. I mean, I guess it's unlikely that someone only listens to book 6 of a series, but if they do, they'd get a really wrong impression of what this series is like. A nice medieval fantasy tale at that, but meh to the whole genre at this point.