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I'm a bigger defender than most of Consider Phlebas than most, but it's a product of age.
If you grew up with Star Trek and Neuromancer, the first book kind of splits those wickets on utopia/dystopia neatly in a way I don't think holds up as well afterwards.
Player of games is a much neater intro, but the ambiguity of the first book felt intentional, and it's always interesting to me to see peoples reactions to that called shot.
I must have read that description of 'damage' a dozen times.