What are some more modern Far-future science fiction novels that

>>9045332
I don't have any answers but I just wanted to say this was the first good request for genre fiction I've ever seen.
Also go to the containment thread.
>>9041042

>>9045332
>wanting prose in an inherently utilitarian genre
what the fuck is the point? read sci fi for the ideas and cool shit. read FW for prose.

>>9045332
Favorite book ever!

>>9045355
Of course I want sci-fi shit in sci-fi novels, but not to the point where it tanks the actual writing.

>>9045332
book of the new sun

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>science fiction
>wonders why there's science

>>9045365
It might be my favorite if it wasn't connected to the garbage that is Endymion

>>9045463
There's quite a difference between
"I am writing this inew am Schrödinger cat box in high orbit over the quarantined world of Armaghast"
and
>Muh 20 pages explaining how a ship'same engine uses photons and theretical physics to power the "hypocapacitor".

also, fuck me for that God awful typo.

>>9045396
Read this OP. My favorite book ever

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>>9045396
This OP, BoTNS sounds exactly like what you're looking for

>>9045662
>>9045396
Thank you both, I've been meaning to read the series for a while but haven't been compelled until now. I'll definitely get on it!

>>9045821
Awesome OP, you'll enjoy it. It's quite a ride.

By the way, is the Hyperion Cantos worth a read?

>>9045934
Not him but Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion are some of the best fiction novels I've ever read.

Endymion and Rise of Endymion are also pretty good but I prefer to treat them as an epilogue to Hyperion rather than a sequel.

>>9045332
how is Hyperion "poetic prose"? Keats references don't make your prose "poetic"

>>9045985
Hyperion's prose isn't particularly brilliant. The novel is what pseuds latch onto for the superficial reason of its title referencing Keats, and its namedropping of a few other sophisticated sounding articles of culture and literature. Its prose is just above functional, but not even close to the heights of a Nabokov or even an O'Connor.

I can support the Wolfefags here on their endorsement of New Sun. He has the finest prose among science fiction writers, to the point it utterly transcends his competition. Wolfe is a very odd outlier, and very good at what he does. Perhaps only Crowley and Le Guin come close in terms of prose.

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>>9045332
Light by M. John Harrison
Embassytown by China Miéville

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>>9046023
>perhaps only Crowley and Le Guin come close in terms of prose

And Peake, desu. Although more fantasy than scifi, but Titus Alone is definitely scifi