Best scifi books

I have just only stumbled across this thread and there are some great recommendations here. Some I have read and others I have bought but haven't got round to them yet!

I would throw out Jeff Somers and his Avery Cates series. I have only read the first 2 in the series of 5 but they are very good. They are cyberpunk if you like that kind of thing. It starts off with The Electric Church. Some great action in it where there are cyborgs with human brains.

Another Author is Simon Morden. His most recent was a book called Bright Morning Star and its about an alien probe landing here on earth in the middle of a war. He has 2 others about men being sent to the moon called One Way and No Way.

As a plug, I do have a reading log here where I review what I read also.

Although Martha Wells is primarily a fantasy writer, and her 'Murderbot Diaries' have an off-putting title, the conceit and stories of the Murderbot Diaries are pretty simple, but really good.

"The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor module, thus enabling it to develop independence, which it primarily uses to watch soap operas. As it spends more time with a series of caring people (both humans and fellow artificial intelligences), it starts developing friendships and emotional connections, which it finds inconvenient."

Although a lover of hard sc-fi, and I'd call this low sci-fi, I love them so far. I've read the first 4 in the series. An easy read, with good pacing, full of good action and humour.