My lover, J (aka, Ozymandus), turned me onto Walter Jon Williams with the book Aristoi.  I’ve read several of his works, and picked up Implied Spaces at the library recently.  I’m started it this morning, so this bit of text comes near the beginning, and confirms something about the main character, Aristide, that I’d thought.  He’s a wanderer through an “Arabian Nights” style space that includes caravanseries, ogres, trolls, horses and lizard mounts.  He has a talking cat, Bitsy, which is evidently unusual.

Aristide turned to Grax and his command.

“Now!” he called. “Charge them!”

Grax took three steps and hurled himself onto his riding-lizard. He pulled his lance from the ground and shook it.

“Grax the Troll!” he shouted.

“Grax the Troll!” his riders echoed, and spurred forward.

“Not exactly ‘Leeroy Jenkins!‘” remarked Bitsy, “but I suppose it will do.”

Tee hee!

(No I don’t consider this a big spoiler, it’s on page 40, and doesn’t really tell me that much about the character, except that more is going on than I know — which the sideflaps told me anyway)