Indeed! Which is an excellent opportunity to shoehorn in a link to Scott Lynch winning the internets, which is why I am currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora (and wondering why no-one else seems to have spotted the Bujold nods - "Request and require you" indeed, and an Isla Durona).

http://fuckyeahscifiwomenofcolour.tumblr.com/post/37413846476/author-scott-lynch-responds-to-a-critic-of-the