Good sci-fi thread.

Any favs, anon?

Alastair Reynolds, Iain M Banks, and Peter F Hamilton have been my top picks lately.

I also finished up Gene Wolfe's, "The Book Of The New Sun". Very fucked up story set millions of years in Earths future after the sun has finally reached its end life and is cooling down. It's set in a world where todays technology is no longer existent.

I'm almost done with Revelation Space right now by Reynolds.  The first 100 pages or so were pretty boring, but it really picked up and the novel is fantastic.  How are the other novels in the series?

While I'm at it, I'm going to spew out some more questions related to the sci-fi genre:

1) Asimov...where do I start?  How is his writing?

2) How's Hyperion?  I hear nothing but praise!

3) Are there any novels/stories specifically about rogue AI?  I suppose I Robot would be an example, but I've only seen the movie.  The best example I have though is I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison.  That short story screams "Fuck yeah"