I finished up Lou Aronica's
Blue. I can't really complain; it was a little more sweet/maudlin/YA than I'm used to, but it didn't suck by any means... and it didn't turn me into a wuss.
It was a rather nice change of pace, actually.
I really,
really enjoyed Peter Watts' short story;
"The Things" (Finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award). A really cool treatment of
The Thing from the Thing's POV. If you haven't seen Carpenter's 1982 classic film or read the 1938 novella that inspired it all (
Who goes There?) then there's really not much point in reading "The Things." But if you have, and you're a fan... well, then I highly recommend it.
I'd also like to point out an adrenaline-filled, Mil-SF short by Michael Ehart called
"What the Bullet Sang" on the primarily space-opera oriented eZine Ray Gun Revival. Very polished... hope to see more.
I'm going to start filling in some missing pieces of my sci-fi education, starting with the first book in Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga;
Shards of Honor.