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Hello dear fellow scifi readers! I'm looking for some recommendations, as the last few books I've read, I did not finish.

To give you some idea of what I really like and am looking for:

I've already read and enjoyed:

• Forge of God (and a lot of other books by Greg Bear)
• Blindsight (and everything else by Peter Watts)
• A world out of time (Larry Niven)
• Actually pretty much everything by Larry Niven
• Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke)
• Childhoods End (Clarke)
• 3 Body Problem (and the other books by Liu Cixin)
• Children of Time & sequels (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Bobiverse books (Dennis Taylor)
• Heechee Saga (Frederic Pohl)
• A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
• The Expanse
• Almost everything by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Disposessed (Ursula Le Guin)
• The Great Ship (Robert Reed)
• The Spin books (Charles Robert Wilson)
• Boat of a Million Years (Poul Anderson)
• Galactic Center (Gregory Benford) (although I couldn't finish part 3)
• Dragon's Egg (Robert L Forward)
• The Killing Star (Charles Pellegrino)

What I didn't enjoy:

• I liked Old Man War and it's first sequel well enough, but the rest was very dull to me. I don't think I'd want to read anything else by that author.
• Tried to read Expeditionary Force as it's always recommended after the Bobiverse, but it's also very dull
• The Uplift Saga (David Brin). I feel like I should really love this, and maybe I'll go back to it later. But I couldn't finish the first book.
• Adrian Tchaikovsky is very hit or miss for me, I didn't really enjoy and DNF most of his books other than the Of Time books.
• Before you recommend the usual: Alastair Reynolds, The Culture books and Hyperion, I keep trying to read and enjoy these books but so far have not succeeded. I think this is just me not being in the right place to enjoy these as everyone seems to absolutely love them, so I'll give them another try some day.

TLDR: Overall, I enjoyed the Expanse, Larry Niven's Known Space books and Vernor Vinge's books the most. Military space sci-fi (like the Old Man War sequels) is not my thing.

Hoping for some recommendations to break this cycle of not finishing books... thanks in advance!

EDIT: Whoa, didn't expect so many recommendations! Thanks so much, I have enough to read for a year, I think!

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