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Servants of the Map came in the mail last week, and I finished it over the weekend. Very, very good; I was surprised by how much I liked it -- smart, thoughtful, engaging. I think I need to look up Andrea Barret's other books now. I'm leaning toward Voyage of the Narwhal, almost totally because it seems to be set largely in the Arctic. I have a big thing for the cold and remote and austere, yo. I think it's the sekrit additional reason of my love for all those due South post-CotW stories. I mean, I love Fraser/Kowalski *anyway*, but when you add that in, I get my setting happiness and my slashy happiness all in one place! What's better than that?

There aren't too many books I can think of that combine those two things, at any rate. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay has both gayness and Antarctica, but they're completely separated. Hmm.