Ow.

Have just finished The Prize In The Game, Jo Walton's third book and her best yet. (It's the third in a series, but features different characters, and you don't have to have read the other two at all.)

She hath rived my heart with this book, and I want to tell you why, I really do, but I also want you all to read it, so I can't tell you. Argh!

Her new book is something completely different, a comedy of manners with dragons, and I am more and more tempted to just buy the hardback already. What's even more enticing is that AFAIK she's rewriting a Jane Austen plot as SF right now. (On LJ, she's papersky.)