Given your recommendation, I'll move The Light Ages to the top of my to-buy list. I haven't read anything of MacLeod's before, but I just finished Perdido Street Station and I read The Etched City last summer, so I'm fascinated by the various permutations of steampunk. I wish there was more Age of Exploration/Industrial Revolution fantasy.

Oh, and the bear-shaman poem based on that Viking dream? I sold it to Goblin Fruit for the Fall 2007 issue. *beams*