Indeed Dune was milked for all it was worth and that was when Frank Herbert was still alive. Continuing after his death was a bit much but the first three are a must read.
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Definitely Alastair Reynolds but Peter F. Hamilton's stuff varies a lot.
Personally the uplift war series is brilliant but some of the other stuff is weak.
No I haven't is there a sequence of books to kick off with?
Would you recommend that series as a starter to his writing?
Personally, Mindstar Rising, start of a trilogy set in a near future Britain or if you want epic, The Reality Dysfunction.
I made a mistake about The Uplift War - that was David Brin and Sundiver is the first of the trilogy, The Uplift War is the second but a very good stand alone novel.
On Alastair Reynolds there are a few options. I started on revelation space which is a trilogy. He has done a fair few other books set in the same universe too with the prefect and chasm city being excellent books which again would be a decent starting point. Highly recommend pushing ice too as a stand alone book to get you started with the author
Dunno if I mentioned it, or even if you can buy them any more, but the time wars by Simon Hawke. Well, the first six anyway.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00ENI928G/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b00eni928g
I like the last sentence is the description "What could possibly go wrong?".
They are really good and the science behind it is well described without being too long winded. As mentioned, from book 7 or so it starts to get a little..... rushed I think is the best way to describe it - the stories seems to not be so fleshed out.
However I reread the first five or six constantly every couple of years, and love the Scarlet Pimpernel and this take on the story is fantastic.
Do you like Warhammer 40K? Almost all their books are good reads, I recommend it. You can start with Horus Rising by Dan Abnett.
Try Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time.
I enjoyed Neil Asher, Alastair Reynolds etc. and CoT was well up there with the best of them.
I've just started A Fire Upon the Deep by V. Vinge, based on a Reddit recommended Sci-Fi list and it's pretty good so far.