Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Michael Froomkin wrote:

Discourse.net: A Literary Note: TOR, incidentally, is on a roll. I'm amazed that well more than half of the quality SF/Fantasy I've read in the past year was a TOR product.

Let me endorse that, and praise:

Scott Westerfeld (2003), The Risen Empire (New York: Tor: 076534467X).