Cory wrote (several days ago) that Charlie Stross, multiple time collaborate of Cory's, has received iof his first novel, Singularity Sky. You might want to check out their previous collaborations Jury Service and the prerelease version of Unwirer, Charlie's stories including Lobsters as featured in Year's Best Science Fiction 19, or Stross's own weblog, with his bit on the occasion:
This is the culmination of endless hours (days, weeks, months ...) of work, a project I started in 1996 and which at times looked as if it would never get anywhere. My first novel, in hardcover, from a major publisher.
