Yesterday, I finished gobbling up the new Steven Brust novel, Tiassa, another of the Taltos novels. This one seemed to me to be several short stories tied loosely together. He used at various points his standard Taltos novel style interspersed with the style he put forth in The Phoenix Guards. I read this rapidly and enjoyed it, with my only irritation being that it's over, and now I have to wait a year or so for his next book.