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Originally Posted by tmclough
I've mostly been reading Star Trek.
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Although I don't care for space opera
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Star Trek is about the most operatic that space opera can get.
Not all of the following will meet all of your criteria, but authors to concider:
William Gibson
Charles Stross, especially
Iron Sunrise and
Singularity Sky and
Glasshouse
Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos
Alastair Reynolds
Peter F. Hamilton's
Commonwealth Saga and
Void Trilogy
Robert J. Sawyer
Neil Stephenson
Peter Watts, especially
Blindsight
Richard K. Morgan
Vernor Vinge has already been mentioned, and
Fire and
Deepness are great, but I'd start with
Marooned in Realtime. Ideas from that novel have stuck with me pretty much constantly over all the years since the first time I read it. (I'm always thinking of situations where it would be useful to have bobbles.)
Which reminds me of something else (totally unrelated) that also has memorable moments/memorable lines that stick with me-- the short story
The Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw and the novel
The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. And
The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler.