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I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton.

One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind.

And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule.

And I’m utterly here for it.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

He sets his books in parts of Leicestershire and Rutland where, as an uneasy adolescent, I cycled for pleasure and peaceful hours.

Some of his stories are set there directly: some of them borrow the place names; and some of them have sly little hints that put me back in a particular lane or copse or village, with the realisation "Oh, it's *there*" which makes me smile, remembering.

in reply to Sarah Brown

I'm not familiar with his work but it sounds really interesting. Any suggestions where to start?
in reply to gz

@gz Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star), or the Salvation trilogy (which is my favourite, but opinions differ).

Lots of people like the Night's Dawn trilogy, but it's early work and I think he concentrates on world building at the expense of plot there.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

taking this as signal to catch up on what he's been doing the past couple decades
in reply to aesmael

@aesmael Salvation! Read Salvation. First book goes hard on Hyperion/Canterbury Tales and then it all goes a bit dark forest/Fermi paradox.
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I'm really needing some new sci fi so I might check it out, I haven't read that series yet!