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Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross both count I think. Most of the action is on the ground though and the main two characters are secret agent types. The first is set on a world that is set up like Tsarist Russia, they are visited by "The Circus" which gives people on the planet whatever they want, then sits back and watches what happens. A bunch of revolutionaries ask for weapons and then it goes weird. The second features space nazis and is set just after a planet is destroyed and the survivors launch and counter-attack against the wrong people. There is a period of time before the counter-attack hits so the race is on to prevent it. Anyway, I've read most of Charles Stross' stuff and these are my favourites by miles. edit: I tried reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds but couldn't get into it. I mostly remember thinking "infighting archaeologists? Yawn..." was I wrong or are the other books better?
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It's ages since I read that trilogy, but didn't it have a part where he mentions how organised religion was affected by knowing for certain there's life after death? The way I remember it was him going on about how interesting it was, then refusing to tell us about it. Also, those bitek people were insufferably smug. The first two Commonwealth books were much better, but yeah I skip over the bits with the trees.
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