I'm still in the process of reading Jason Schmetzer's novel "Embers of War," and I'm really enjoying it. It's been a long time since we had new novel-length fiction, but the wait has allowed period pieces like this one (set on the eve of the Jihad in 3067) to weave in elements about the Word of Blake that were still unrevealed when the other 3067-era novel, Endgame, hit the bookshelves.