Comment Awww (Score 1) 5
I too appreciate your comments as relatively rare gems in a maelstrom of, as you say, rubbish. I'm sorry to see you go, but understand your doing so.
I guess, if the ship's not sinking, the rats must be the ones not leaving...
As for scifi recommendations, I had a blast reading Douglas Adams (his five-part trilogy, as well as Heart of Gold), Ender's Game, and, perhaps surprisingly, Edgar Burroughs' Mars trilogy as well as Jules Verne -- ancient, but technically scifi. If you're open to unknown short works, do pay a visit to 365tomorrows:
http://www.365tomorrows.com/about/
Live long and prosper.