Just finished “Master of Djinn” by P. Djèlí Clark  A fascinating, vivid, steampunk-ish Egypt, with well done characters and a good story, Recommended, as are the shorter associational works, available on TOR.com. 
 

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I wasn't all that satisfied after "Wells of Shiuan" and then "Fires of Azeroth", but "Exile's Gate" picked up a lot better, IMHO.

I always thought that both Wells and Fires were part of the same single story but conventional publishing wisdom at the time would not have allowed a single volume of that aggregate combined  size.    Exile's Gate was published a good fifteen years after the first Morgaine volume and publishing norms had changed in favour of longer books..

But that's just my opinion - I could be wrong.
 

Union's Science Bureau is quoted in the intro to Ivrel - it mentioned a team has been prepared implying the team is from Union.
 

So as not to engage yet another obsession until I have the current one (a fanfic for The Outer Worlds) out of my system, I did some reading of things I've read before: George R. R. Martin's "Tuf Voyaging" (which for some reason I can't articulate right now, strikes me as a little more off than it did when I first read it years ago) and "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland.  The latter feeds directly into the angle I'm taking for my fanfic (a narrative that explores the Everett/Many-Worlds foundation of quantum mechanics), which is something I outright sole from Neal's "Anathem" anyway.  It is really good, I'm finding, to put down the electronics and just go sit down with a physical book. Sure, I have the Kindle app, but my book can't text me, or ding me with a notification, or receive calls, and that is -- from time to time -- really needful.

Kokipy wrote:

...the Vorkosigan Saga...

Ah!  That entire series is so, so, so very good!