Steven Brust
Author of Jhereg
About the Author
Steven Karl Zoltan Brust is a writer and musician. He was born on November 23, 1955. Brust has worked as a systems programmer for a computer company and played guitar, drums, and banjo in such bands as Cats Laughing, Morrigan, and Boiled in Lead. Brust writes science fiction, including the Vlad show more Taltos series, The Pheonix Guards, 500 Years After, and Brokedown Palace. He has written "choose-your-own-adventure" books for Tor and published several short stories in a series. Brust also released a solo album, A Rose for Iconoclastes, on the SteelDragon label. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Steven Brust
A Vlad Taltos Collection: Dragon, Issola, Dzur, Jhegaala, Iorich, Tiassa, Hawk, Vallista (2019) 6 copies
Paarfirotica 5 copies
Valasag and Elet 2 copies
The Book of Taltos 2 copies
Calling Pittsburgh 2 copies
The Man from Shemhaza 1 copy
The Book of Jhereg : 1 copy
The Ballad Of Shemhaza 1 copy
A Dream of Passion 1 copy
Bluff 1 copy
Dragaera: Steven Brust, the Viscount of Adrilankha, Dragaera, Issola, Taltos, Phoenix, Khaavren Romances, Jhegaala,… (2010) 1 copy
Attention Shoppers {poem} 1 copy
Associated Works
Eeriecon Chapbook #4 — Contributor — 3 copies
DreamForge Magazine Issue 1: Tales of Hope in the Universe (DreamForge Magazine Year 1) (2019) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Brust, Steven Karl Zoltán
- Birthdate
- 1955-11-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- St Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Places of residence
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Texas, USA - Occupations
- science fiction writer
fantasy writer
musician - Organizations
- Cats Laughing (drummer)
Pre-Joycean Fellowship - Agent
- Valerie Smith
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Jhereg by Steven Brust: Fantasy February Group Read in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (June 2013)
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- Works
- 68
- Also by
- 19
- Members
- 32,572
- Popularity
- #595
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 618
- ISBNs
- 216
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 177
You know, it's not that I don't enjoy this series, but more and more as it goes on, I find myself thinking that I don't enjoy it nearly as much as I feel like I should, or even as much as I keep trying to convince myself that I do. This one... is OK, I guess? The combination of frothy stuff about having to save the theater's musical production from lawsuits and financial problems and the implication of cosmically important events being set up is a little odd. One of those two things is much more interesting than the other, but it's the thing that's barely dealt with, not the one that's focused on. Maybe the next book will finally bring things to a really interesting head, but then, I was kind of thinking that already after the previous one.
The resolution of the plot is more than a little contrived-feeling and anticlimactic, too. And while there may be more efficient ways of snapping my suspension of disbelief than having actors in your carefully world-built fantasy novel break out into a Gilbert and Sullivan parody, I'm not sure I can think of one off the top of my head. Honestly, all the little snippets of musical parody here feel like the author being just a little too pleased with his own cleverness.
For all that, it was readable enough, I suppose, and I still have lingering fondness for Vlad and his world, but I can't say this installment has actually got me feeling all that bad about the apparently imminent end of the series.… (more)