This probably doesn’t count as good science fiction but ** Stephen Kings ** short story The Jaunt has a great creepy ending.
The GSV Sleeper Service unloading a complete war fleet at the Excession.
I still don’t think this is entirely correct. I suppose my memory could be faulty, but as I recall one of the main characters in Fire was a young man, at least in his 30s, and in Deepness he was very much older, darn near a legend. That would place it well after Fire.
Phaam Nuwen was massively rebuilt by the Old One (I think) who was using him as a teleoperated tool in Fire. And the degree of reconstruction (nearly a total body and mind rebuild) was part of why Phaam Nuwen in Fire was so unsure of himself.
Publication dates: 1993 for Fire
2000 for Deepness
Okay, thanks for the clarification. That meshes with what I remember of Fire. Clearly I’ll need to reread the books. 
Sorry for the hijack.
For my own contribution, the entirety of Buck Godot is one long sustained moment of awesome. My personal favorite two scenes are the conclusion to the Psmith storyline, starting at this page.
Why not? Single creepiest story I’ve ever read and not just for the ending.
The ROU Killing Time’s attack on the enemy warfleet.
“Missed you fuckers!!!”
And in the massively underrated science fiction film 2010, the entire end sequence with HAL’s noble sacrifice and the aero-braking maneouvre around Jupiter.
I’ve never cared much for Rose as a companion in Doctor Who, but her personification of Bad Wolf in The Parting of the Ways gave me chills the first time and each subsequent time I’ve seen it;
The Doctor: Rose, you’ve got to stop this, you’ve got to stop this now! You’ve the entire vortex running through you’re head, you’re gonna burn!
Rose Tyler: I want you safe, my Doctor. Protected from the false God.
Emperor Dalek: You cannot hurt me, I am immortal.
Rose Tyler: You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them.
Oh, wow. I flipped over to this thread while reading the “Hilarious porn” thread, completely forgot that I had done so, and then saw that post. Man. THAT was not a good mental image.
Longer than you think dad!
Hmmm…
In Dune where the unnamed Atreides warrior fights a duel with Feyd-Rautha and kills himself rather than giving Feyd the triumph.
In Spider Robinson’s Stardance, where he describes making magic with bubbles of various liquids in zero-gee. (And not forgetting the detail that in order to do this, the ventilation has to be turned off, so the audience has to keep moving slightly so as not to be surrounded by an ever-increasing cloud of CO2).
Many, many in Zelazny’s Lord of Light: The great-souled Sam journeying into Hellwell in, or Kubera the Fat gesturing and making the block come alive with block-ness, Ratri and Yama bringing Sam’s soul down from the electromagnetic cloud around the planet…
The end of Sturgeon’s Slow Sculpture, where they contemplate making bonsai of each other.
In one of Doc Smith’s stories, where the ships of the good guys lock into a tubular formation, with their rays shooting inwards, and cut through the bad guy fleet like an apple corer. (Details might vary slightly, since it’s been four decades since I read the Skylark series, but that’s the general impression.)
The whole description of a drop in Starship Troopers, from the moment the capsule leaves the ship, through all its shedding of layers, down to the planet.
Keith Laumer’s Bolo, where the Bolo unit recovers limited abilities after being defeated in battle, and uses its position behind enemy lines to win the day.
Corwin, Prince of Amber, on a Shadow Ride.
and many, many more.
“The Lokapalas are never defeated.”
That’s one of the Lensmen series, rather than Skylark.
“For the honor of the Regiment.”
Apparently you and I should sit down and talk favorite stores some time. 
Tiptree: The Man Who Walked Home. Kate! Kate!
I don’t remember that bit … though I love the book! Remind me.
But I do love the bit where Danny goes to visit Ricky and Pete at the summer camp before he takes the sleep the second time, and has to say goodbye to her.
I just read TDIS two nights ago, and was crying like a baby at that point.
What nerds!! Where is the awesome??
Kelly LeBrock first appears in Weird Science. Oh the lips:)
I was such a young boy.
Even before Kim Basinger and Angelina Jolie.
That sequence was so great. I agree with you that 2010 is massively underrated.
Alright, let’s use “awesome” in its original sense*: something that arouses awe. Then I nominate:
The Ringworld–pick your moment.
STNG, the “Rescue Scotty” episode (IIRC): the Dyson Sphere
Lensmen: the Sunbeam & the planet from N space “nutcracker”–Wow!
- Kids these days They use “Awesome” to mean anything exciting or new. Wadda ya gonna do?
I also nominate the final attack, and all the momenst leading up to it, in Niven’s The Legacy of Herot, and it’s sequel, The Children of Beowulf. Damn good yarns.
In Niven’s first novel World of Ptavvs, the scene near the end, when Pluto burns. Talk about an awe-inspiring image.
Let’s face it, Niven and awesome go together like franks and beans.