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There's a couple of Lucius Shepard stories and a novella multiformat on Fictionwise. I think Shepard is one of the finest writers alive. Fictionwise's selection of his stuff is pretty narrow, though I think I've seen The Jaguar Hunter available as an ebook somewhere - possibly from electricstory.com.
I grew up reading Harlan Ellison, one of the predominant 'characters' of the sf field, and a lot of his books are available on FW. I don't even know where to begin in terms of what to buy, since so many are to mind stone-cold classics. If you're not familiar with him, buy one or two of his short stories; he rarely writes novels, and has built his reputation on his huge number of short stories. Star Trek fans are familiar with him as the author of the OS episode 'City on the Edge of Forever'.
Chris Beckett is a UK sf author who writes in a style not dissimilar to that of Christopher Priest (The Prestige), Eric Brown (Meridian Days) and other distinctly English authors. He's won awards for his short and long fiction, which might be described as literary sf. I highly recommend his novel The Holy Machine, multiformat on FW, as is his collection of shorts The Turing Test.
Paul Di Filippo has a nice little short novel up, 'Linear City' or something like that. Set in a city only a few hundred metres wide and possibly infinite in length, with Hell on one side of a river and Heaven on the far side of a rail track that define the world's parameters. Good stuff.
Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer won the Hugo in the mid-Sixties. I've read and reread it several times. He has other stuff available in multiformat too.
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