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I just finished Simon Morden's Arcanum. I enjoyed his Petrovich books, so I was willing to give this a shot - despite the previous books being post-apocalyptic technopunk and this being historic epic fantasy.

I liked it quite a bit more than I expected. Especially given the potentially fatal cliched plot (European feudal society based on magic, magic goes away). His characterization was excellent; people were flawed, but sometimes were heroic and sometimes did bad things for good reasons, or maybe reasons they thought were good. Like real people.

I heartily hope he is writing more in this setting. (desperance, any insight?)