From the gossip of the classroom to our obsession with instant communication, Look To Your Wife is witty & brilliantly observed,
...It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns & the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.