I love Neal Asher’s books, found him a long time ago in one of those “year’s best” collections of short stories from the library (though the ones with fantasy and horror were always the best, I think I read every single collection for every year and found so many good writers that way.)
They are full of action, good characters and worlds and ideas, sweeping and huge settings. Feels almost more like watching a movie to read them.
Who among us likes these action packed stories?
For me, the favorite of the genre to date are the Mass Effect games, Star Wars (the good ones, at least), Asimov’s Foundation books, Stanislav Lem’s Solaris book and, even if it’s more grimdark than space opera, Warhammer 40k. I still have to delve into The Expanse but I don’t have the time yet
I found I clicked more with The Expanse as the TV show than the books.
Some series are like that for me. I read so much more than I watch shows, but some stories I don’t click with until they end up as a movie or TV series.