Ian Banks. Culture series. Vernor Vinge. Zones of Thought series. Alastair Reynolds. The Revelation Space series. I would recommend this list of sci-fi book

Ian Banks. Culture series. Vernor Vinge. Zones of Thought series. Alastair Reynolds. The Revelation Space series. I would recommend this list of sci-fi book series. All of the series belong to the space opera genre (though not the pulp fiction kind) with some hard sci-fi elements. All authors incorporate many computer science and physics concepts and it's quite a rewarding experience to run into computational complexity used as a plot device without any glaring errors. My first choice would be the Culture series. I've burned through 10 Culture books in one month and stopped only when there were no more books left. So good.