Sci fi/space opera recommendations

SDMDAM

Peter F. Hamilton latest offering, Salvation, is good although took me a while to figure out what was going on. Part 1 of a new trilogy.

IRobot

Back when I was reading Sci-Fi, only four books ever got a "10/10" from me and one of them was Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky".

IRobot's Sci-Fi book list