I often recommend it to science fiction readers who haven’t read a lot of short stories. The whole collection is really well done.
Yeah, there was a throwaway line in Excession where one of the ship’s Minds tells another something to the effect that it typically knows what course of action its crew will vote for before they do. The line seemed at once cynical in casting doubt on free will if the Minds could model human behavior in advance, and oddly optimistic in that the Minds apparently are so enlightened that don’t actively try to influence the outcome, to the extent that Minds caught doing so are shunned by the others.
