Long-time roleplayer. I like traditional adventuring, sword & sorcery/dark fantasy, military/mercenary, hard science fiction and historical roleplaying.
Specific Games I Would Like to GM
GURPS hard science fiction/technothriller
Games I Want to Play
Burning Wheel (Tolkienesque, dark fantasy, or historical)
GURPS modern, military, science fiction, Prime Directive, espionage. I would probably consider historical or Dungeon Fantasy, too.
Mythras/RuneQuest 6 (any setting)
Fictional Themes I Like
Gene Wolf, The Book of the New Sun
Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth and Lyonesse (especially the Ska)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings
Michael Moorcock, Elric series
Clark Ashton Smith, Xothique and his other weird fantasy stuff
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Color Out of Space
Robert E. Howard, the Conan and Kull stories especially
Karl Edward Wagner, the Kane series
Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword and Three Hearts and Three Lions
Glenn Cook's The Black Company series
Beowulf, the Eddas, medieval Romance literature, etc.
Sci-Fi Stuff
Hard science fiction, military science fiction, political and exploration.
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
"The Rediscovery of Man" by Cordwainer Smith
"Invincible" by Stanislaw Lem
"The Stone Canal" by Ken MacLeod
"Blindsight" by Peter Watts
The Deathworld trilogy by Harry Harrison
"The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester
Names
Alastair Reynolds, Arthur C. Clarke, B. V. Larson, Charles Stross, Christopher G. Nuttall, James Blish, David Drake, David Weber, E. E. 'Doc' Smith, Ian Douglas, Jack Campbell, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Robert E. Heinlein, S. K. Dunstall, Mike Resnick, Poul Anderson, Lois McMaster Bujold
Other RPGs I Like
Tekumel and Glorantha settings
Barbarians of Lemuria
Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperboria