Haha I’m currently reading that :) been on my to read list for years

I started it while waiting for Exodus: The Helium Sea paperback to come out. Then immediately ordered the next 3 volumes and have volume 5 on my watch list. Just as good as Peter F Hamilton's world building!

OP: sorry for hijacking this thread!

I’m 200 pages in and currently like it (Children of Time). But I was a bit cautious about it since it’s so highly recommended. Last time I read highly recommended SF was Alistair Reynolds: Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap.
I have so many complaints about those books but while RS and RAs most defining features are that they are forgettable AG was god damn awful. Only thing I will say here about those books is that I was told they are ”hard” SF, but the amount of hand waving things away in them makes them as much SF as Star Wars. 
And this comes from someone that, to be completely honest, loves pulp fiction SF. A series that is a bit newer, that I really liked is Jack McDevitts Academy Books (Engines of God is the first book, really good one). The series book wary wildly in how good they are. And they are in no way high literature and have the cozy pulp fiction feeling to them.

If we want some higher literature I can recommend Klara and the Sun. SF written by a literature Nobel prize winner (not for this book tough). 

I read Revelation Space, it was OK but forgettable indeed (had to read a summary to remind me). I don't think I've read the sequels, especially Absolution Gap's summary doesn't ring any bells and does look awful. I recently bought Alistair Reynolds House of Suns but not got to it yet.

I enjoy Stephen Baxter and Peter F Hamilton for sci-fi. I enjoy world building mostly, the commonwealth saga is amazing to me. Hamilton's Exodus is lovely pulp fiction SF, real page turner. Engines of God sounds good to me, I put it on my watch list.