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Looks like we skipped one!  Emil was answering for Steampunk at the same time as Scott Laz.  So for New Space Opera I'm going to cheat and say:

for Allie's Elderly Protagonist:

This is a book I really enjoyed, perhaps more than most.  The 2 central characters are an aged couple who undergo a new treatment to rollback the clock so that they can be around when the aliens reply to the questions sent out decades before. The treatment works for the husband but not for the wife and they have to deal with an ever-widening gulf in their ages while they prepare for the alien response.  It's got some unique twists on First Contact that are pretty clever.  Speaking of...

Next up: First Contact

I suppose that Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is as alien as they come.

Next:  Surrealism!   

Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder

I read this one recently and it's really good.  Such wonderful imagination!  It's a steampunk world with free floating cities within a vast sphere that contains many man-made small suns powering it's different city states, battling airship armadas, jet engine bikes and goggles galore.  There is a hint of a much more technologically advanced universe outside the sphere that I hope will be expanded upon in the followup books which I have yet to read.

@justifiedsinner: You can only link from the full reply page not the quick reply box at the bottom of the thred.  Click the reply button on the last entry to get to it.  When you enter the book title highlight it then click the little chain-link icon in the tool menu.  That will bring up a box to enter the URL for the link.  I usually have 2 windows open so I can easily copy and paste the URL from one window into the message box in the other.  It also makes it easy to drag the cover image over from the search results page.  The cover image will come over with the page link intact.  Let me know if you have trouble.  I can show you over Skype or something if you like.

Next up:  Generation Ship

A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski

I've not read this one myself but my brother swears by it.  Of course he's a biologist as is the author so that may have something to do with it.  It's on my list.

Next up: Cthulhu mythos NOT by Lovecraft

@scifigal84:  If you haven't seen it yet be sure to check out the Baen Reader's List of Recommended Military SF.  I got that list from the man himself, David Drake, though he didn't make it.  Check out the about link at the top of the list to get the story on how the list came about.  I will note that there is not a MIlitary SF award which I still find rather shocking.

Sounds like you've got a bunch of MilSF in the works already but I'll throw in there the Old Man's War series by John Scalzi.  Great fast reads with a lot of Scalzi's characteristic humor.

An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe

(Glad that worked, that bit with getting the image and novel here. With only 6 revisions)

Next: good old western setting

Next, from hot to cold: an Arctic/polar setting

Brass Man by Neal Asher

This is book 3 in Asher's Agent Cormac series.  I really like the first book, Gridlinked, which was just brimming with action. 

Next up:  Virtual Reality