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Funnily enough, I had Cryptonomicon (and even more so the Baroque Cycle) very much in mind when I was thinking of really enjoyable long reads.
I completely agree with the poster who mentioned George R. R. Martin as long=good and Robert Jordan as long=bad!
Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy is a good example of how long sci-fi can be every bit as good, if not better, than sci-fi novellas. (Mind you, his Pandora's Star series is a great example of how long sci-fi can be absolutely rubbish...)
It doesn't really depend on the genre, it depends on the story being told.
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