I would recommend Scott Westerfeld.
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The risen empire is a brilliant space opera, told from the point of view of several characters, involving different human civilisations, one of which is lead by an emperor who has understood how to avoid death more than one thousand years ago, and therefore has been ruling for all this time...
I haven't read Evolution's Darling, but it looks great.
Scott Westerfeld also writes a lot of books for teens, sci-fi or fantasy.
The Uglies series is about a dystopian world in which everybody undergoes surgical surgery at 16, in order to become pretty and spend their life partying with their pretty friends. When she's about to turn 16, Tally is forced to wonder if there may be more to life than partying...
I recommand this one most highly, for teens or adults.
Peeps takes an original view of vampires as people infested with a parasite. A quick read, but very good and gripping.
The Midnighters series also looks interesting, though I've heard it's a bit inferior to Uglies.
And a last book, Leviathan has just gone out.
It's steam punk and looks really good, though very expensive as an ebook.
Of the books described above, the Uglies, Peeps and Midnighters series are available as ebooks, as well as the newest one, Leviathan.
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