I love all sci-fi but my favorite sub-genre of it is going out and exploring space. What are some good books in that area? Or Space Opera. I love Star Trek (not the new stuff) and Babylon 5 so any books with that sort of theme of a spacefaring civilization
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I really like how he handles the replicator economy in The Diamond Age. Much more realistic than how they do it in Trek.
I'm trying to not give too much away, but the society in The Diamond Age has similar replicators to Trek, but the way people obtain replicator instructions and how people who design those instructions are incentivized to do so is I think a lot more realistic. It's more an extension of how 3D printer models today are designed and distributed than "well everyone knows how to do it and does it because they like to, and it's all free".
Cryptonomicon is also good, though I'm not quite sure I see the connection to present day. If anything we're closer to on our way to the Snowcrash universe
It basically makes whatever you want from energy: food, furniture, clothing etc...
I've never read Amber. Snow Crash is a good first book of his, and there's some speculation that The Diamond Age takes place in the same universe as Snow Crash but ~100-150 years in the future.