Steven Burst, Author, Steven Brust, Author Tor Books $23.95 (443p) ISBN 978-0-312-85179-8
This sequel to Brust's The Phoenix Guard comes close to crossing the line into self-indulgence but is saved by ultimately becoming a rollicking good read. Initially, however, the narrative is buried in such a flow of periphrasis that the reader...
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-86478-1
In his latest chronicle of the Dragaeran Empire, Brust (Issola) conjures the spirit of Dumas (the subtitle evokes the Viscount trilogy that includes The Three Musketeers), though he less successfully captures the panache of those classic...
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-85582-6
Full enjoyment and occasionally mere understanding of Brust's first book in his Viscount of Adrilankha series, Paths of Glory
(2002), depended on knowledge of the author's two earlier books, Phoenix Guards
(1991) and Five Hundred Years...
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85581-9
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...
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $24.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0148-2
After a detour with the Viscount of Adrilankha trilogy (Sethra Lavode
, etc.), Brust returns to sometime assassin and popular protagonist Vlad Taltos in the 10th installment of his famously disordered series. Beginning where Issola
(2001) left off,
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0147-5
Despite witches, magical amulets and “elfs,” the appealing 11th novel in Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos series is a classic private eye thriller. Still hurting over his recent divorce and pursued by his former employer’s...
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $24.99 (319p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1208-2
Brust's enjoyable 12th Vlad Taltos adventure (after 2008's Jhegaala
) brings the former organized crime figure back to his hometown, where he must avoid the many assassins still on the lookout for him. As Vlad tries to help Aliera e'Ki
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Steven Brust, Author Ace Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-11816-8
Brust's ( Jhereg ) dynamic, inventive style makes this time-hopping, intergalactic thriller a better book than its plot initially suggests. For all the frills and furbelows--and there are many, each more bizarre than the next--the central conflict...
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Steven Brust, Author . Tor $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-85927-5
The dashing Lord Vlad Taltos returns in this ninth installment of the Taltos series (after 1998's popular Dragon, which some would consider a stand-alone story), in which the hero engages in more philosophical musing than muscle work. Still a...
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Steven Brust. Tor, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2444-3
Brust's 14th Vlad Taltos fantasy novel (after Tiassa) is another taut, entertaining tale of the human assassin/witch and his life among the 17 clans of the Dragaerans. After a series of assassination attempts spoils Taltos's opportunity to visit his
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Steven Brust, Author Tor Books $18.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-312-85178-1
Brust has concocted a marvelous fantasy, a vampire novel in which the word ``vampire'' never appears. Jack Agyar is, if not quite immortal, very long-lived. He writes the story of his life on an old typewriter in the attic of an abandoned house in...
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Steven Brust, Author Tor Books $19.95 (331p) ISBN 978-0-312-85157-6
Brust's ( Phoenix ) latest does not involve the hero of his ongoing Vlad Taltos series, but it is set in the same world, Dragaera, 1000 years earlier, and shares the wit and exhuberance of the Taltos books. Khaavren, a young swordsman, sets out to...
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Steven Brust, Author Tor Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86692-1
""So there I was, in a full-scale battle; that is, in a place where no self-respecting assassin ought to be."" Dashing Vlad Taltos, the swashbuckling hero of Brust's popular Taltos fantasy series, makes his hardcover debut after seven mass market...
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Steven Brust, Tor, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1209-9
The 18th novel (after 2010's Iorich) in Brust's sprawling Dragaera fantasy series is a wonderful return to form, setting assassin hero Vlad Taltos in a contest of wits and wills against imperial guard captain Khaavren, the formidable protagonist of...
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Steven Brust, Author, Emma Bull, With Tor Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-85974-9
Top-tier fantasists Brust (Five Hundred Years After) and Bull (War for the Oaks) team up for a historical romance, expertly styled after a 19th-century English epistolary novel, that runs one James Cobham through the gauntlets of three sinister...
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Steven Brust and Skyler White. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8288-7
Brust and White follow 2013’s The Incrementalists with this timely novel that examines immigration and police brutality through the device of a detective story. The story opens in April 2014 with Arizona activist Phil being shot and killed. Luckily...
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Steven Brust and Skyler White. Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3422-0
In this philosophical and inventive urban fantasy, Brust (the Vlad Taltos series) and White (In Dreams Begin) introduce the eponymous secret society, which has existed for millennia with a startlingly humble mission. The Incrementalists use their 40,
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Steven Brust, Author, Terri Windling, Editor Ace Books $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-441-08410-4
This thoroughly refreshing, informative novel contains disparate components that coalesce nicely: an examination of how five struggling artists who share a studio interact with each other, a discourse from one of them about his craft, and a...
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Steven Brust, Author, Megan Lindholm, Author, Megan Linfholm, With Tor Books $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-85274-0
Part gritty urban police procedural and part horror fable, this enthralling fantasy/mystery examines issues of life, death, love and morality. A man without memory, known as the Gypsy, wanders the streets of Lakota, Ohio, leaving death in his wake....
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Steven Brust. Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2445-0
The clever 15th book in Brust’s Vlad Taltos cycle (after Hawk), set in a fantasy land where humans uneasily coexist with the 17 clans of long-lived nonhumans called Dragaerans, continues his recent trend of pastiching genres by taking on the gothic...
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Steven Brust. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9637-2
In this underwhelming paranormal procedural, a trio of investigators working for the Foundation, a secret organization that regulates and monitors magic, set out to find a magic-using hit man. Donovan, Marci, and Susan must figure out the connection
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Steven Brust. Tor, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8284-9
Brust’s wise-cracking crime boss and witch Vlad Taltos returns for an exciting 14th fantasy noir replete with murder, magic, and love (after The Baron of Magister Valley). Vlad is a rare Easterner (read: human) living in the Dragaeran (read: elf)...
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Steven Brust. Tor, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8286-3
Bestseller Brust (Tsalmoth) continues his long-running series featuring sometime-assassin Vlad Taltos with a wonderful installment that combines theatricality, crime, Vlad’s trademark wise-cracking, and portents of world-changing events. Vlad, a...
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