I actually didn't like Spindrift as well as the others, but I am a fan of space opera. I think it's quite possible spacers will be listening to The Dead in the future. He shows a lot more of the day-to-day life in the future than we see other places, and I think he has interesting ideas. The Coyote series is not in space as much as I'd like, but I like the stories. Did you notice there's a guy posting to Charlie's Diary as Rigel Kent?

And I've known him for a long time -- he was a regular on our SF chat forum in OMNI on AOL (back when he was in MO) and we see each other every now and then at cons. In fact, he very loosely based the character Genevieve in The Tranquillity Alternative on me.