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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
One I don't recommend:
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
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And I have to neutralize that by strongly recommending
Perdido Street Station. Along with
Iron Council,
The Scar, and
The City and The City, all by Mieville. Mieville rocks the sick shizzle bomb, as kids today are wont to say.
Other recent-ish stuff-- Peter F. Hamilton.
Read Pandora's Star and
Judas Unchained, followed by a new trilogy based in the same universe (a thousand years later)
The Temporal Void and
The Dreaming Void (third book not out yet.) The best general comparison for the first two Hamilton books listed is Dan Simmon's
Hyperion Cantos books.
Someone mentioned Stross. Recommended are
Iron Sunrise and
Singularity Sky. Especially Singularity Sky, post-human, post-singularity fiction being amongst my favorite. Speaking of post-human, Alastair Reynolds' series of books starting with
Revelation Space are pretty good. As are Richard K. Morgan's three
Takeshi Kovacs novels.
Also, Blindsight by Peter Watts. Some really interesting explorations of the nature of consciousness.