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Counting Heads - David Marusek

The Void Trilogy - Peter F. Hamilton

'Counting Heads' uses such a society as a backdrop. The free people in it barely get by, for what that's worth. They band together in little corporations and share their micropayments for doing trivial little things. Customized clones get the middle class life we have now.

David Marusek's Counting Heads.

Mindbendingly brilliant post-human SF, hugely critically acclaimed (Locus called it "one of the best SF novels of the decade"), criminally under-read.

Baxter's Manifold Trilogy is indeed excellent, with the exception of the horrible Manifold: Origin, which can be excused though, if you see it as Baxter preparing himself for Evolution, which he wrote shortly after, and which is in my opinion a forgotten masterpiece (and the best I've read from Baxter).

I also strongly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital series, if you're interested in reading about politics, climate change and science, set in a near future.

I think Robert Charles Wilson has some great books, but the Spin series for me are not his best (and I don't get why did those got so many awards). From him I'd recommend instead The Chronoliths and Blind Lake.

China Mieville's Bas-Lag trilogy also gets my vote.

Other great series no one mentioned here yet are:

• River of Gods & Cyberabad Days, by Ian McDonald (not really a series, but one of the highlights of the decade, for me)
  
• Counting Heads & Mind Over Ship, by David Marusek
  
• The Golden Age series, by John C. Wright
  

On a side note, if you want to read a similarly themed book, but with more modern understandings of technology and how humans interact with such radical changes I would highly recommend David Marusek's Counting Heads. The story may also be more to your liking, as the characters are much more important to the central plot, and it plays out like the movie Crash, where you get introduced to many separate characters and their stories, and they converge as the story goes on to paint the larger picture. It's a lot more gripping, but it is also more vague in what themes about the future it's trying to present. I won't lie, I plug this book a lot, but it's for a good reason. The way he extrapolates technology in the future is a lot more complex, taking notes from all of our recent scientific endeavors.