Any good sci-fi books? :)

Can anyone recommend any decent sci-fi books to add the collection?
Anything in the vein of Alastair Reynolds, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Peter F Hamilton, Martha Wells etc. is always great but any and all book recommendations much appreciated!

Given that list I’m going to presume you’re familiar with Iain M. Banks?

Indeed, albeit i haven't read many of his ones outside of Consider Phlebas and a couple of other Culture ones - do you have any particular ones to recommend?

Excession and Player of Games would be next on my list.

If you enjoy Banks then tangentially related to him is Neal Asher. He often gets labelled as a knockoff Banks, (with his 'Polity' universe being a right-leaning version of the Culture), but his books are more action/military focussed, with dashes of cyberpunk and space opera. I did eventually go off him as I found him to be quite unpleasant online, but I can't deny he can churn out page turners. The Gabble is a good place to start as it's a short story collection.

The last sci-fi that I got through and thought was absolutely cracking was Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Stephenson did Snowcrash which was a more light-hearted cyberpunk book but Seveneves is hard sci-fi akin to someone like Baxter. It's got a really interesting central premise, (if we found out the Earth was doomed, could you get enough material into space within 20 or so months to sustain the human race), and then runs with it. It has people a bit divided as it's a) ridiculously long, (not a problem if you like Hamilton!), and b) takes a narrative jump about two thirds of the way through. I thought it was fascinating.

In terms of classic SF, Gateway by Frederik Pohl is another one that I always recommend.

Can anyone recommend any decent sci-fi books to add the collection?
Anything in the vein of Alastair Reynolds, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Peter F Hamilton, Martha Wells etc. is always great but any and all book recommendations much appreciated!