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I'm a big "hard science fiction" buff. Heinlein, Asimov and Clark were big "hard SF" writers. Nowadays its folks like Greg Bear (who's stories are a bit too dark for my tastes) and Roger McBride Allen. Of course, I'm also big into military SF, with Drake and Pournelle leading that pack, alternative history by Turtledove, and finally I love Laumer's (and all his successor's) Bolos.

... alternative history by Turtledove, and finally I love Laumer's (and all his successor's) Bolos.

Yeah. Turtledove's "Guns of the South" is very good. (At last, the good guys win that war.) Laumer is definitely one of my favorites. His Bolo stories are amazing (for the SF lurkers, military SF is a sub-genre), but beyond that, I regard him as a master of time travel stories. He did one (Dinosaur Beach, I think) where seven different eras were simultaneously slugging it out. It must be incredibly difficult to write a story like that and keep your readers from going nuts.