Never read it, but my favorite romance-horror-witty-sci-fi novel series is the Faction Paradox range. (If you're familiar with Doctor Who, FP was born from the Eight Doctor Adventure books) If you'd like a free taste, here's the blog of one the FP writers, which contains some great short stories. http://www.infinitarian.com/
And here's a free and legal PDF of the FP novel, Newton's Sleep: http://randomstatic.net/newtonssleep.php
