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That was going to be one of my recommendations.

I would also recommend the Reality Dysfunction . Humanity has split into two factions, the Adamists and Edenists based on the chosen technological path, the one uses neural nano-tech to control hardware while the other is genetically engineered to telepathically communicate with each other, with huge organic sentient starships and sentient habitats, then something happens in a frontier colony that rips a hole in the fabric of the universe and soemthing evil and undead begins to leak through threatening to engulf this universe.

Revelation Space is another one of my recent favorites, several threads in the story progress toward a converging point, an archeological dig pointing toward an ancient catastrophe that wiped out an alien race, a space crew in a huge ship traveling at .99c and carrying some nasty weapons and something else, an ex-soldier turned contract assassin hired by a mysterious madmoiselle to kill a certain someone, the mystery of what lurks inside the hyper-curved "shroud" and the final showdown. All pretty awesome in its galactic scope.