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I think for cool, fast-paced adventure sci-fi, I would go with Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth or Void books. The author is very good at writing adventure stories and is little concerned with the science.
For more literary scifi, I'd probably go with Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion like someone already mentioned (I'm not a fan of the books after that), Frank Herbert's Dune books (avoid the later books by his son, they're excretable) or A Canticle for Leibowitz (personal favourite book of all time).
If you want something more realistic, I'd probably also read Spin, Axis and Vortex. Spin and Vortex were both very good books (with Spin receiving a Hugo award in the year it came out). Anything by Stephen Baxter is also good if you want really accurate science, but don't mind sometimes poor characterization.
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