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Some of the Warhammer 40,000 novels produced by Games Workshop/Black Library are worth a look. For the unitiated, Warhammer 40,000 began life as a tabletop science fiction wargame with a rich and often disturbingly dark universe to back it up and has since spread itself across more than twenty years of books, computer games and a forthcoming film.
The quality of the books is a bit patchy. Nevertheless, the ones written by Dan Abnett are exceptionally good. His Gaunt's Ghosts series deserves particular mention and is some of the best military sci-fi I've ever read. He's also written a few for the Horus Heresy series including the opening novel Horus Rising which stand head and shoulders above most of the others in the series.
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