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I've been a big fan of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels for many years. They're always highly imaginitive and entertaining. You get a real sense that the author's really having the time of his life writing this stuff. Also, he has a sense of humour. (His non-sci-fi stuff is generally very good too)
Another series I really enjoyed was Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, a mixture of 'hard' semi-plausible sci-fi, interstellar war and solid story telling. He's written a tonne of other stuff too, but these are my favourites.
Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy is a lot of fun, though it does get a bit silly at times. As an author he's a bit uneven and has put out some truly dreadful books at times (Mis-spent Youth, for one) but these three kept me entertained
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