Big fan of the Dune & Foundations series, and want to dig deeper into good, less known sci-fi.

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Good list in this thread:

What’s the “hardest” sci fi book you can think of that’s set in the very far future? Ie. The most technologically, socially and economically plausible description of society in humanities far future. Kind of weird that there aren’t a lot of choices.

— EigenGender (@EigenGender) January 26, 2023

Recommendations in it:

• A deepness in the sky, by Vernor Vinge
• The Expanse
• Diaspora
• all of Iain M Banks’ Culture
• Peter F Halmilton’s Commonwealth saga
• Dan Simmons’s Hyperion
• Vinge’s a Deepness in the Sky
• Tchaikovsky’s Children* series
• Egan’s Wang’s Carpets
• Death’s End by Cixin Liu
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
• Children of Time
• The Golden Age

Authors

Ian M. Banks

Note: author writes mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks.

The Culture novels

1. Consider Phlebas (1987)
2. The Player of Games (1988)
3. Use of Weapons (1990)
4. The State of the Art (1991)
5. Excession (1996)
6. Inversions (1998)
7. Look to Windward (2000)
8. Matter (2008)
9. Surface Detail (2010)
10. The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)

Other novels

1. Against a Dark Background (1993)
2. Feersum Endjinn (1994)
3. The Algebraist (2004)
4. Transition (2009)