I like asking this every couple of months. I’m currently reading the first book of the Three Body Problem and the book I finished before it was a book about Angels by Billy Graham that my mother gave me when I was in middle school but finally read recently. Better late than never
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I am currently read the Culture series novels by Iain Banks. I think I got tipped off to them from a poster here, as a matter of fact!
They're really good space opera, set in and around a post-scarcity society. I can highly recommend them for light reading.
Sounds good! I love space opera
Culture series (IMO) goes off the rails after you've read ~3-4 books. Banks was a communist, and his vision of The Culture is essentially communism with AIs managing everything.
The problem this poses for the books is that Banks presents The Culture as this ultimate post--problem setting, so basically all of the actual stories are taking place outside of The Culture. By the 3rd book taking place in some relative-backwater space-feudalism, the formula wore a bit thin.