I was listening to a science and futurism with Isaac Arthur episode about deep time and cryo ships and the book Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds was recommended and it sounded interesting so I gave it a read and Lord it was a really good book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89186.Pushing_Ice

Edit: Just finished house of suns. Whoa!

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        Another fantastic short story is The Sleepover. Most of humanity is in hibernation and is being haunted by ethereal lovecraftian entities.

        Turquoise Days was the first short story I read by him, and I think it could make a fun movie.

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      I’m going to have to try to go through House of Suns again. If I remember correctly, I started to try to read it and was put off by the political world environment building or whatever. But I’ll have to give it another shot.

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    Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon. Consider using the Fediverse equivalent: BookWyrm

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    My favorite author of fiction. Try Revelation Space (a series) for more far-future deep time craziness. Try Revenger for a treasure-hunting romp in a universe with countless fallen space empires and their spooky relics.

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    One of my favourite SF book. Very interesting setting with unforessleeable (up to certain part) ending.