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- TheBlueOne0
I read mostly history, political and military stuff, Although I do have some favorite geekboy sci-fi/fantasy writers..since what you put up was fiction I will respond likewise:
Recently read Peter Watts' Blindsight for some whacko techno scifi with vampires and alien contact. Sounds lame, but it's quite good (I think there was a free pdf version available from his website for a while):
http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight…
Anything by Steven Brust, my favorite contemporary fantasy writer. Sure it's got magic and swords and thieves and elves and shit, but it's also got whipsmart political thrillers (imagine if a socialist rebellion formed in Middle Earth..wait..cooler than that...really), hardboiled detective thrillers, whores, assasinations, mob bosses, fun plot reads adn stuff that makes you go "hmmmmm...". Brust is a bright guy. I'd suggest starting here:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Jhere…
or here for his take on the whole God/Satan thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Reign-Hell…
I'm currently reading this, which is not fiction but rather an interconnected collection of essays on things in the world..somewhere between bathroom reader adn one fo those.."Woah..coool!" kinda books.