Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian
labor organizers, Steven Brust worked as a musician and a computer
programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with
"Jhereg," the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human
professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived,
magically-empowered human-like "Dragaerans."
Over the next several years, several more "Taltos" novels followed,
interspersed with other work, including "To Reign in Hell," a
fantasy re-working of Milton's war in Heaven; "The Sun, the Moon,
and the Stars," a contemporary fantasy based on Hungarian
folktales; and a science fiction novel, "Cowboy Feng's Space Bar
and Grille." The most recent "Taltos" novels are "Dragon" and"
Issola." In 1991, with "The Phoenix Guards," Brust began another
series, set a thousand years earlier than the Taltos books; its
sequels are "Five Hundred Years After" and the three volumes of
"The Viscount of Adrilankha": "The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of
Castle Black, "and" Sethra Lavode."
While writing, Brust has continued to work as a musician, playing
drums for the legendary band Cats Laughing and recording an album
of his own work, A Rose for Iconoclastes. He lives in Las Vegas,
Nevada where he pursues an ongoing interest in stochastics.
"Includes all the action, romance, and pathod of its predecessors
"The Phoenix Guards," "Five Hundred Years After," "The Paths of the
Dead," and "The Lord of Castle Black."..There's no denying Brust's
fine pacing and worldbuilding and his sheer pizzazz." --"Booklist
"on "Sethra Lavode"
"Watch Steven Brust. He's good. He moves fast. He surprises you.
Watching him untangle the diverse threads of intrigue, honor,
character and mayhem from amid the gears of a world as intricately
constructed as a Swiss watch is a rare pleasure." --Roger
Zelazny
"Steven Brust might just be America's best fantasy writer!" --Tad
Williams
"Delightful, exciting and sometimes brilliant, Steven Brust is the
latest in a line of great Hungarian writers, which (I have no
doubt) includes Alexandre Dumas, C.S. Forester, Mark Twain, and the
author of the juciest bits of the Old Testament." --Neil Gaiman
"Brust is incapable of writing a dull book." --"Booklist "on "Paths
of the Dead"
"Filled with high adventure, intrigues, a great deal of good humor
and moments of genuine hilarity...It's rare for a book over 400
pages to seem as short as this one. It's even rarer to find one
that seems likely to satisfy such a broad range of reader
expectations, humor, adventure, intrigue, and wit all in the same
package." --"Science Fiction Chronicle" on "Five Hundred Years
After"
"As always, Brust invests Vlad with the panache of a Dumas
musketeer and the colloquial voice of one of Zelazny's Amber
heroes. This is a rousing adventure with enough humor, action and
sneaky plot twists to please newcomers as well as longtime series
fans." --Publishers Weekly on "Dragon"
"A splendid caper that welcomes newcomers, while existing fans will
pounce." --Kirkus Reviews on "Dragon"
"No mere plot summary can describe accurately the fun and adventure
that naturally seems to follow Vlad Taltos." --VOYA on "Issola"
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