I am reading big space operas right now.
What we know of this reality is so limiting compared to what we can imagine.
Good dreams. Many of us have them.
I also like to dream the knowable remains much larger than the currently understood too.
What we know of this reality is so limiting compared to what we can imagine.
Good dreams. Many of us have them.
I also like to dream the knowable remains much larger than the currently understood too.
The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey;
The Commonwealth and Void trilogies by Peter F. Hamilton, and the Night’s Dawn trilogy also by Peter F. Hamilton;
The Dune saga by Frank Herbert.
I think I liked it in the end, though not as much as his other books, but can absolutely understand people would dislike it.
It's the culture with more detailed worlds and villains.
This is actually a central theme of the Zones of Thought novels by Vernon Vinge where a character in the far future describes our current time as the "Age of Failed Dreams" (GAI, nanotech etc.) - turns out that he is wrong but for rather neat reasons....