I side-hopped to Neal Stephenson. Only, he seems to be writing one book each about large areas of possible future, rather than a series. Or a hyper-series, like C. J. Cherryh where sets of stories are told from different parts of the same over-arcing time-line.

Neal Asher has the same thrill of technical what-if, but is not yet of wide enough breadth. And hopefully, Daniel Suarez will keep going.