I sometimes wonder about all the extra, cool sci-fi books we'd have now if Iain m banks hadn't died over a decade ago. A species type he mentioned in a couple of his books but never really explored were stella-field liners. Essentially aliens that lived in between the magnetic field lines of stars. Damn he wrote for sci-fi. Well actually he wrote for everything.

If anyone is looking for someone who evokes the same feelings with their writing I highly recommend Slow Gods and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. She writes like his reincarnation, and whoever produced the audiobooks thought the same because they even got Peter Kenney to narrate them.