Looking for a summer scifi marathon read?
Check out Peter Hamilton's The Nights Dawn Trilogy.
Hamilton has put together a vast tapestry of the future that rivals the Dune series in scope and is superior in the use of hard tech.
FTL, Antimatter tech, biotech, nanotech and genengineering are all in full bloom. His somewhat dark take on colonial life is entertaining but reminds me just a little of Sinclair's, The Jungle.
It is a monster trilogy of over 5000 pages. I am halfway thru the first volume and so far it has been great