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	Steven Brust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent.
		An infatuation and (subsequent to the murder of a friend) disillusionment with the Mafia, and later the breakup of Steven Brust's marriage, have both profoundly influenced his storylines.
		Steven Brust in 2004 at Minicon 39 in Minneapolis, MN.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Brust (1027 words)

	Review: Steven Brust's The Paths of the Dead, reviewed by Christopher Cobb
		Brust has held my interest for eighteen years in part because he doesn't repeat himself, even in a long series featuring the same characters.
		Brust's technical control of his material is another feature of his work that has helped to hold my interest over the years: I enjoy noticing little correspondences of details between the two series, seeing the world gradually pieced together as the stories unfold.
		I think we can be confident that Brust's four friends will not remain in the background for the rest of the series and that plot will not be neglected in favor of character and world-building in the forthcoming books.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030203/paths.shtml (1751 words)

	Fun Facts to Know and Tell about Steven Brust
		Brust himself is very quiet about his own politics ("I hate it when other people preach") but did refer to his dead friend as "comrade" and professed to being a "red diaper baby" raised by Trotskyite parents.
		Brust said that he had forked out the $2,000 or so for the painting that graces the cover of Phoenix Guards and said that he's been generally very happy about his book covers with the exception of To Reign In Hell (led people to think it was a McCaffery Dragonriders ripoff).
		Brust put out another tape "Queen of Aitr and Darkness" with a band called Morrigan which wasn't as good as Cats laughing IMHO, but they still turn in a couple of very good traditional celtic tunes (the best of which is "The Fair Lady" which resonates with the villain in _The Gypsy_).
	mywebpages.comcast.net /museable/Articles/brust-trivia.htm (1759 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Brust: Yes, it is. And I felt kind of funny about the thing being used in [the 1988 volume of] Year's Best Fantasy, extracted out of it, because I didn't write that, it's a Hungarian folk tale.
		Brust: Well, one thing I like to do that's fun for me is start out with wish fulfillment and then examine it, to start out with "I wish I was this," or "I wish I could do this," and then look at the consequences.
		Brust: That's one of the things that I had planned for a long time, and was slowly building towards.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue224/interview.html (6091 words)

	Steven Brust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brust is a prolific and masterful author with an impressive talent.
		Brust has a weblog at www.dreamcafe.com, and participates occasionally in the main mailing list on dragaerea.info.
		Following the meltdown of Steven Brust's weblog (along with everything else on the server, such as the Dragaera mailing list), he's started up a livejournal.
	www.speculativefiction.org /weblog/group/author/steven_brust/index.jsp (377 words)

	Dragaera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Steven Karl Zoltán Brust was born on November 23, 1955.
		Steven Brust is a Minneapolis writer of Hungarian ancestry and the father of several novels and four children, non necessarily in that order.
		Some of Brust's characters apppearing include Sethra, Aliera, Morrolan, Zerika II, Adron, Sethra the Younger, the Sorceress in Green, and Vlad.
	www.math.ttu.edu /~kesinger/brust (622 words)

	Amazon.com: Sethra Lavode (V of A): Books: Steven Brust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Brust's stylish conclusion to his Viscount of Adrilankha trilogy (after 2003's Lord of Castle Black and 2002's Paths of the Dead), which pays homage to Dumas père's D'Artagnan swashbucklers, Empress Zerika the Fourth tries to consolidate her hold on the realm, but her challenger, Kâna, isn't ready to give up the fight.
		Brust manages to keep these stories consistent with those books, which are slightly later in time, without ever sacrificing excitement or consistency.
		Brust has the knack of creating characters who have the charm of creativity, even when they are doing their best to be despicable.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312855818?v=glance (2663 words)

	Rambles: Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Steven Brust is quite arguably the most sophisticated stylist working in the realm of fantasy literature today.
		There are many themes that reveal themselves as aspects of Brust's main concern -- the ability of power to corrupt, the easy perversion of sanctity to authority, fanaticism and its stomach for atrocities as the natural corollary of following a "higher law," the ease of subverting good will and tolerance.
		If it weren't for the fact that Brust displays such authority as a writer, one could look at his works as a series of parodies (in the best sense), although given the evidence, "homages" would be a better characterization.
	www.rambles.net /brust_toreign84.html (534 words)

	Bookslut \| An Interview with Steven Brust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brust’s two dozen books are pedestal-type examples of what modern fantasy is. In his books, there are no grouchy dwarves, no predictable quests and no talking cats.
		While some are drawn in by Brust’s laser-like attention to detail—and, indeed, have constructed online ledgers to accounting for the same -- most are sucked in by the story, by the skill with which Brust makes you care and keeps you entertained.
		Brust, who now lives in Las Vegas, took a quick break from writing the next Vlad tale so that we could chat about his work, his life and his poker by phone, which he answered with a hoarse, “I’m your huckleberry.”
	www.bookslut.com /features/2004_05_002065.php (1443 words)

	Steven Brust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Much of Steven Karl Zoltan Brust's work shows evidence of his love for his Hungarian heritage, so it was no surprise that when he consented to write a novel for the Fairy Tale series, he chose a Hungarian folktale to retell.
		Born on November 23rd, 1955, Brust now makes his home in a sprawling country house on the outskirts of Minneapolis with his wife, Reen, their four children, and a fluctuating number of other housemates and assorted wildlife.
		Brust is the author of five popular and critically-acclaimed (_Brokedown Palace_, _To Reign in Hell_, and the books of the "Vlad Taltos" series), and is a founding member of the legendary Minneapolis Scribblies Fantasy Writer's Group.
	www.skyehidesigns.com /books/brust/brust.html (148 words)

	Article: Interview: Steven Brust, by Chris Olson
		Originally from Minnesota, Brust now lives in Las Vegas, where he is able to play a lot of poker.
		I was introduced to Brust's work a few years ago, and in October of last year had the pleasure of meeting him at Conjecture, a science fiction and fantasy convention in San Diego.
		Steven Brust: I suppose his wry sense of humor.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030203/brust.shtml (2897 words)

	Steven Brust: Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille [Review © T Brown, 2003] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With hindsight it's easy to detect Brust's debt to Roger Zelazny: there's a particularly metaphysical twist to some of his metaphors, and a cavalier disregard for modern English that's reminiscent of Zelazny at his most lavish.
		Billy, who sounds from the photofit as though he bears a marked resemblance to Brust himself, is as unreliable a narrator as you could wish to encounter.
		Brust's light, witty prose sits oddly, at times, with the salvation of humanity and the weighty ethical issues underlying the narrative.
	www.avnet.co.uk /amaranth/Critic/brust2.htm (483 words)

	Rambles: Steven Brust, Agyar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brust's novel concerns the doings of Jack Agyar, whom we come gradually to understand is a vampire.
		The form allows Brust to do what he does best: reflect, digress, elaborate as a means of exploring character and events.
		Steven Brust is quite arguably the best stylist working in fantasy literature, and maybe in any literary area at all.
	www.rambles.net /brust_agyar04.html (442 words)

	On the Spot at Fantasybookspot: Steven Brust \| Fantasybookspot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Steven Brust, author of the Vlad Taltos novels, as well as the Khaavren Romances and many other great fantasy/sci-fi novels..
		Steven Brust has been my favorite author, hands down, since I read his book, and so it was a great pleasure to be able to talk to him.
		Brust for this glimpse into your inner workings, and again I would like to state that I am very excited to see the continuation of Vlad Taltos.
	www.fantasybookspot.com /?q=node/view/181 (803 words)

	Sun by Steven Brust, 0312860390, Lowest Book Price Finder
		As his characters paint their respective canvases, and the three gypsy brothers strive to put the sun, the moon and the stars in the sky, woven together with art philosophy, the joy of creating, and the history of the characters, Steven Brust works his magic by painting with words.
		Brust works art into a tale told about people, their emotions and their lives.
		A departure from Brust's "Vlad Taltos" series, "The Sun, The Moon and The Stars" was Brust's first book and reflects some of the deeper material he would later delve into with "To Reign In Hell" and "Cowboy Feng's"...
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0312860390 (482 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Phoenix (Steven Brust) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brust's habit of skipping blithely over certain scenes is beginning to annoy me. His account of the rebellion in South Adrilankha in particular seemed like a cheat to me; I'm sure it's difficult to write these scenes, but then that's why I put the time into reading these damned books anyway.
		Brust's clipped style is also beginning to wear on my nerves.
		While Brust's style often gets in the way (as I mentioned earlier), there are times when the pain that Vlad is clearly going through becomes almost unbearable for the reader.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/BrustStevenPhoenix.shtml (365 words)

	Freedom and Necessity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brust and Bull both have a history of creating narrators who are fallible or unreliable, and the epistolary format allows them to play games with what the characters know, and what they're mistaken about, and what they're willing to reveal, and to whom.
		For several years now, Steven Brust has been on my "Buy on sight, no questions asked" list; Emma Bull was likely to get on it, as well, if she continued writings books as good as _The War for the Oaks_ and _Finder_.
		I admire Brust and Bull (and indeed you as their editor) for getting away with that ambiguity and not nailing the thing down dead.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~phoenix/brust/freeandnecc.html (2296 words)

	BOFH Favorite Authors - Steven Brust
		This is a page where I'll slowly add some thoughts on Steven Brust's books.
		Given some of the published reports on how Brust felt about Athyra and that we have a second book with him as a major component (Orca) this is probably true.
		Given the fact that there isn't even a rumor that Brust has even started a new Vlad novel, so I'm guessing at even the title, you would be a fool to think I had a clue.
	www.bofh.com /books/brust.html (1614 words)

	Steven Brust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While Brust's novels are funny, the satire can occasionally be heavy-handed to the point that his characters become caricatures, lessening our interest in their personal travails.
		Brust's most popular and enjoyable Dragaera novels revolve around the exploits of a human assassin, Vlad Taltos, exercising his trade in Dragaera's largest city.
		by Steven Brust - This is the compendium featuring Taltos and Phoenix - the next two short novels featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon companion (yes, he has a small, sentient dragon who sits on his shoulder and acts as lookout).
	www.heartoglory.com /fantasy/steven-brust.php (1255 words)

	Musings of the Hearth: Lord of Castle Black by Steven Brust
		Brust writing as 'Paarfi' I am sure would get pretty annoying to many but I am pretty successful at finding the amusement lasts just long enough to avoid the annoyance.
		I love the world and the characters and almost everything else Brust has written, both in and out of the Dragaera universe.
		Brust also has a rarely updated blog and is also a poker player.
	scv.bu.edu /~aarondf/hearth/archives/000113.html (242 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Issola
		It is always a notable event when a new Vlad Taltos novel is published: with Vlad, Steven Brust has created one of the more original and memorable characters of fantasy fiction (a cynical scoundrel reminiscent of Leiber's Grey Mouser), a world and irreverent humour representative of the best of Terry Pratchett.
		Brust's likeable if satirical protagonist, an assassin with sixty-three kills to his credit, is more introspective and philosophic than Lankhmar's Mouser.
		As in past novels, Brust uses Vlad's adventures to explore and wryly comment upon the human condition, using tongue-in-cheek humour and burlesque to satirize both mortal and divine foibles, as well as delve into deeper philosophic and existential issues.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/is112.htm (930 words)

	Steven Brust reading order? - sffworld.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Anyway, here is another Brust (unofficial) page listing the books in both chronological and published order.
		Brust is excellent, his only major series is the "Vlad Taltos series".
		He wrote a few stand alones though, as well as a companion trilogy to the Taltos books (only 2 of that trilogy are written yet).
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2135 (601 words)

	Writer Groupie's Favorite Authors -- Steven Brust
		Although Steven Brust has written several stand-alone books, he is best known for his Taltos series of fantasy novels which feature a human assassin named Vlad Taltos who is accompanied by his snarky pet jhereg (similar to a small dragon) on various adventures of magic, swordplay, love, life, death and deceit.
		Brust also wrote a wonderful related series, set several hundred years before the Taltos series, "The Phoenix Guards", "Five Hundred Years After", "The Paths of the Dead" and the recent "The Lord of Castle Black" that are wonderful homages to Dumas' "Three Musketeers".
		It was TV Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe who first recommended that the WriterGroupie read Steven Brust's Taltos series.
	www.writergroupie.com /authors/sbrust.htm (338 words)

	Steven Brust, The Viscount of Adrilankha Adventures
		Steven Brust has been writing novels set in Dragaera for years.
		I had read no others of Brust's Dragaera novels before this series, and it felt very much like starting in the middle of a story, with things going on all around me that I didn't have a clue about.
		To be fair to Brust, I asked for opinions in the GMR break room, and a fellow reviewer said that she found Paarfi's style "made her slow down to savour the words." So there you go.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_brust_adrilankha.html (1136 words)

	Amazon.ca: Book Of Taltos: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Steven Brust is the author of Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, and Dragon.
		Vlad is a mob member and an assassin, as well as a member of a racial minority, in a complex and deeply dysfunctional society.
		Brust is a fine writer, with a nice sense of irony and narrative structure.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0441008941 (1150 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Yendi / Steven Brust
		Whereas Jhereg, Steven Brust's first novel of the resourceful assassin Vlad Taltos, was an elaborately constructed mystery, Yendi is a much tighter tale set several years prior to the events of the first book.
		In some ways it's as if Brust, in thrusting Vlad and Cawti into a whirlwind attraction (it's not really a romance, more a purely animal sexual desire), is literalizing the concept of sexual release as a "little death." It's a much smarter application of his wit as a writer than anything he managed in Jhereg.
		As in the first novel, there are layers underneath the surface, but Brust does a much better job of managing his plot's increasing intricacy.
	www.sfreviews.net /yendi.html (477 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Taltos / Steven Brust
		The fourth Vlad Taltos novel is one of the series' slightest, but it's highly thought of by Brust's fans as a good jumping-on point for new readers to the saga.
		(But Brust does do an ingenious job of incorporating that one into the main story at a key point.) The juxtaposing of all these narratives is at first disorienting, but once you get used to how Brust is doing it, they're entertaining enough.
		There are exciting scenes here, the humor is brisk as always, and thankfully Brust does seem to have outgrown the penchant for grating wisecrackiness that he started out with.
	www.sfreviews.net /taltos.html (655 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Paths of the Dead
		Steven Brust introduces new characters, reintroduces old characters, and brings them all together in such a way as to set these people into context.
		Writing in such a way as to combine a very old style with what we consider the modern way is a considerable job, one that he has pulled off over and over.
		Brust's world is rich; the political machinations, the plotting and cross plotting all create fine webs that seems to color everything.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/pd152.htm (632 words)

	Sequential Tart: (vol IV/iss 1/January 2001)
		Brust’s books are intelligent, well-written, interesting, and often take unexpected turns.
		For those of you who might not be familiar with Brust’s work, his largest series is of course the Vlad Taltos books: Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon and the soon-to-be-released Issola.
		Steven Brust: I don't really keep with the field well enough to have an opinion.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/jan01/brust.shtml (1082 words)

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