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sc fi
+1 for Iain M Banks culture novels. Especially the first 3.
Joe Haldeman the Forever War series.
If you like sc fi with history I would highly recommend The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis- contemporary Oxford research student travels back to black plague infected middle ages and gets stuck, whilst her colleagues vainly try and get her back - excellent science and well researched history.
If you are looking for other books to take I have just read "incognito, the secret history of the brain" by David Eagleman- a fascinating account of modern neuroscience and how our unconscious really rules the roost.
Plus the new Bill Bryson book about 1927 is hilarious.
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