The Culture is very optimistic, and features engineering on a scale that makes these concepts look like iron age coracles.
A personal favourite of mine is Schismatrix though. It's set almost entirely in space habitats similar to the ones featured here.
As Neuromancer's lesser known cyberpunk contemporary, in places it's very... 80s in tone politically. But it's still a great setting, I'd highly recommend it.
Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think!
Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything more recent that describes such structures as evocatively as those novels. They seem to have fallen out of fashion a little, which is a shame.
The Culture is very optimistic, and features engineering on a scale that makes these concepts look like iron age coracles.
A personal favourite of mine is Schismatrix though. It's set almost entirely in space habitats similar to the ones featured here.
As Neuromancer's lesser known cyberpunk contemporary, in places it's very... 80s in tone politically. But it's still a great setting, I'd highly recommend it.