I've been DEVOURING the Neal Asher books, the Polity universe and his other books, they are excellent.
Kinda hard sf with a space opera feel.
Reading Hilldiggers right now - sadly, I've almost finished everything he's written. Luckily he had over a dozen books - a great discovery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Asher
http://theskinner.blogspot.com/
I like the brit sf writers - Asher, Peter Hamilton, Alaistair Reynolds - good stuff.
Just bought myself a big box of sf from amazon for the solstice - yumm!
Richard Morgan has written some fun stuff, and of course you gotta read Bruce Sterling, Neal Stepenson, William Gibson, and that oldschool cyberpunk crew.
For easier reading, in a kinda milsf genre, Steve Perry and William Dietz.
Ahhhh, it's so sad, I've read almost everything you can get... Now I have to wait bout 3 years to let the new books catch up.