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Matter by Iain M. Banks. Culture again after Algebraist. Still good.

The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan. Smullyan writes various essays inspired by Taoism. Quality varies, but Smullyan is generally fun to read.

Declare, by Tim Powers. Cold war espionage with black magic. Entertainingly bleak

Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language is available online for free

The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett. Finally got around to reading this one. Was surprisingly fresh.

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Not a lot of surprises, if you know what Warren Ellis tends to write. Basically a road trip novel through various degeneracies in America. Fun, but tends to go for gross-out warrenellisisms in favor of overall coherence.

Denner's Wreck by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Watt-Evans has an specific style of writing from what follows from the setting and premises rather than going for the most dramatically obvious plot. The results are hit-and-miss with his fantasy novels I've read, but work a lot better here

On SF by Thomas Disch. Beautifully acerbic essays by someone who takes science fiction literature seriously and doesn't let it off easy.

Producing Open Source Software (http://producingoss.com/), by Karl Fogel. A very thorough look into all sorts of practical matters in running a large open source software project.

The Engines of Light trilogy by Ken MacLeod. Entertaining, though a bit erratic.