Portia!

I loved this book! I've never read anything else by him because I had a lot of other books already on my reading list, but I plan to circle back around and read the sequel. I enjoyed the book so much that I immediately recommended it to everyone I know, but nobody actually finished it, which was super disappointing because I wanted to talk to people about it.

For your next book I recommend Hyperion, which is book one of the Hyperion Cantos. It is full of philosophy, universal theories, theology, poetry, and adventure. It's probably the craziest series I've ever read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I even got a book by Pierre Telhard DeChardin afterwards because I was so curious about some of the concepts presented in the Cantos.