I'm a big fan of Peter F. Hamilton but hadn't read any of his Greg Mandel books, the first of which, and his first published novel, I finished the other week.

I'm a big fan of Peter F. Hamilton but hadn't read any of his Greg Mandel books, the first of which, and his first published novel, I finished the other week. Well...there's a quite a few nuggets of prose in Mindstar Rising that wouldn't be out of place in this list. Thankfully his writing improved quite a bit, and/or he employed better editors.