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For fun -
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde Hitchhikers guide is a given The Chronicles of St Mary by Jodi Taylor (and Time Police)
If you can make your way over to more fantasy, then:
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacks
Unfortunately, I don't think it was ever translated to English.
"Elder Race", by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This short novel is a bit reminiscent of Iain Bank's "Inversions" in that it combines sci-fi and fantasy through the perspectives of an anthropologist from an advanced space-faring culture and a second protagonist from the medieval world they are secretly observing.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. Canticle for Leibowitz by Henry Miller. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Blindsight is possibly my favorite book of all time. It stayed with me for a very long time and sincerely changed the way I view the world.
Instead, I will point out that "The Mote in God's Eye" has a quite similar setting and is overall one of the best S-F books.
Many great books are already enumerated here. If I am not wrong, nobody mentioned Roadside picnic yet. Also liked Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by S. Lem.
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A philosphical science fiction book on the theme of aliens visiting earth which also influenced the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
All of Asimov, Philip K Dick, Jules Verne.
Asimov wrote too widely to recommend “all of him”. For an entrance into Asimov and his incredible Sci-Fi voice, check out “I, Robot” and the Robot detective series. He was really the originator of the term and popular idea “robot” and “robotics.” He would eventually turn to writing popular science to mixed results.
(Read ~12 tomes of Strugatskies and perhaps a dozen titles by Asimov)
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds Wireless - Charles Stross Stories of your life and others - Ted Chiang Moonrise - Ben Bova Last Plane to Heaven - Jay Lake Best of Greg Egan - Greg Egan
I enjoy sci-fi series, interesting spacecraft, compelling aliens and am a sucker for machine-based intelligence.
This series combines all these and re-engaged in sci-fi. I went on to read most of Asher's other books including "Agent Cormac" and "Spatterjay" series.
Anyway, one title I didn't see mentioned was Grass by Sheri Tepper, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_(novel).