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Originally Posted by Gadget
These six are my 6 favorite writers
Neal Asher
Stephen Baxter
David Brin
Peter F Hamilton
Alastair Reynolds
Dan Simmons
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[I]Revelation Space[I] by Alistair Reynolds is quite good. Its sequels fail to live up to the high bar it sets, but the second book in the trilogy offers some interesting glimpses into Conjoiner (sort of like a hive-mind) society and uplifted animals. The related book
The Prefect deals even more directly than
Revelation Space with whether a simulation is a person or not.
Somewhat nearer-future, but definitely in the crunchy hard SF spirit of Transhuman Space, is
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, which details colonizing Mars.
If you've not read Philip K. Dick's
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, do so, even if it is Earthbound, and then give
Blade Runner another watch.
Not a book, but the film
Moon is worth watching, especially for the psychological aspects.