2001: A Space Odyssey

One more proof of the fact, that the classic sci-fi books (Asimov, Herbert, Clarke) are worlds apart from modern soap operas. Even though they can sometimes be naive and technological progress has already proved some of their assumptions wrong, there's something in them that modern sci-fi books lack, even with all their AI grandeur.
I still love space operas, but reading books like 2001 from time to time is a special kind of pleasure