Having disagreed (somewhat) with Tobias Buckell in the previous post, let me follow that up with something positive: He’s got a new book, Ragamuffin coming out soon, and he’s putting excerpts up on the official Ragamuffin page. You can get RTF files of the first two chapters, and he’s promised a chapter a week leading up to the release.
So, if you like steampunk space opera with Aztecs, or open-source literary distribution, go check it out.