Steven Brust in 2004 at Minicon 39 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede, and also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. Steven Brust in 2004. ... Steven Brust in 2004. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Nickname: City of Lakes Motto: En Avant (French: Lets go!) Location in Hennepin County and the state of Minnesota. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The Scribblies were a Minneapolis-based fantasy fiction writers group. ... Emma Bull (born 3rd January 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. ... Pamela Dean (Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet) is a fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on Carleton College in Minnesota. ... Will Shetterly (born 1955) is a fantasy and comic book writer whose best-known novel is Dogland (1997). ... Nathan A. Bucklin is a musician living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Kara Mia Dalkey (1953 – ) is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy. ... Pat Wrede Patricia Collins Wrede (pronounced REED-ee) is an American fantasy writer, born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois; she is the eldest of five children. ... Several Minneapolis writers have semi-seriously styled themselves the Pre-Joycean Fellowship as a way of indicating that they prize clarity, the lovely limpid quality (Jane Yolen) of writing, over Joycean stream-of-consciousness writing. ...

He is best known for his novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos. His novels have been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Czech, French and Hebrew, as of 2006. Agyar has two different French translations. Most of his short stories are set in shared universes. These include Liavek, Thieves World, Sandman and Borderlands. Vlad Táltos (pronounced Taltosh) is the central character of a series of novels written by Steven Brust and set on the planet Dragaera. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... A shared universe is a literary technique in which several different authors create works of fiction that share aspects such as settings or characters and that are intended to be read as taking place in a single universe. ... Liavek is a shared world brought to life in a series of five fantasy anthologies edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. ... Thieves World #1 (Original Printing) Thieves World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. ... The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by DC Comics for 75 issues from 1988 until 1996. ... This article is about the towns, cities and countries of Robert Jordans the Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series. ...

The Dragaeran books

The Vladimir Taltos series is set on another world (possibly another planet), in an Empire mostly inhabited and ruled by the Dragaerans, who are humanoid but have such differences as greatly extended lifespans and heights averaging about 7 feet. Referred to as "elfs" by some humans, they refer to themselves as "human". The Dragaeran Empire controls the majority of the landmass on the planet, and does not greatly concern itself with the rest. Vlad Taltos is one of the human minority, which exists as a lower class in the Empire (known by Dragaerans as "Easterners"). Vlad also practices the human art of witchcraft; "táltos" is Hungarian for a kind of supernatural person in folklore. Though human, he is a citizen of the Empire because his social-climbing father bought a title in one of the less reputable of the 17 Dragaeran Great Houses. The only Great House that sells memberships this way is, not coincidentally, also the one that maintains a criminal organization. Vlad proves surprisingly successful in this House. Despite being a human and a criminal, he has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends, and often gets caught up in important events. Dragaera is the fictional universe in several series of novels by Steven Brust. ...

Brust has written ten novels in the series, which is proposed to run to nineteen novels - one named for each of the Great Houses, one named for Vlad himself, and a final novel which Brust has said will be titled The Last Contract. The first three novels resemble private-eye detective stories, perhaps the closest being Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. The later novels are more varied than the first three. Though they read like fantasy, there are hints at science-fictional explanations for some things. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... Robert B. Parkers novel Cold Service Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an acclaimed American writer of detective fiction. ... Spenser (played by Robert Urich) and his girlfriend Susan Silverman (played by Barbara Stock) on the former television series, Spenser: For Hire. ...

Brust has also written another series set in Dragaera, the Khaavren Romances, set centuries before Vlad's time. Since Dragaerans live for thousands of years, many characters appear in both series. It is partly an homage to Alexandre Dumas, père's novels about the Three Musketeers, and is five volumes long, following the pattern of Dumas's series. The books are presented as historical novels written by Paarfi of Roundwood, a Dragaeran roughly contemporary with Vlad. Paarfi's old-fashioned, elaborate, and highly verbose writing is explicitly based on Dumas's, though with a dialogue style that is, at times, based on Tom Stoppard's wordgames in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (according to Pamela Dean's introduction to Five Hundred Years After). The Khaavren Romances are a series of fantasy novels written by Steven Brust and set in the fictional world of Dragaera. ... Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. ... For other uses, see The Three Musketeers (disambiguation). ... Tom Stoppard in a 1985 documentary for the film Brazil Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

There is a certain amount of variation in the writing style amongst the Taltos novels as well. Brust uses a different narrative approach in almost every novel in the series. Some of these approaches are more purely stylistic and have minor effects on the actual story-telling; some are profound and involve the point of view of characters whom the reader never expected to get to know so well.

Further, as the writing of the Taltos novels has spanned over two decades, they have been influenced by events in Steven Brust's own life. An infatuation with, and, following the murder of a friend, subsequent disillusionment with the Mafia, and later the breakup of Steven Brust's marriage, are reflected in his storylines.

Lastly, it should be noted that Brust has a decided knack for slipping absorbing mysteries into the minor details of his stories; mysteries that tend to fascinate his readers, once they notice them, and often form the kernel around which later books coalesce, even though their resolution still springs upon the reader unexpectedly when it finally comes.

Convention chapbooks

In 1986, Steven Brust was a Guest of Honor at the Per Ardua Ad Astra science fiction convention in Toronto, and he contributed the Vlad Taltos short story "A Dream of Passion" to the convention chapbook.

Brust included "Klava with Honey" in Eeriecon Chapbook #4 for the 2005 Eeriecon convention. This very brief excerpt was initially part of the novel Dzur. He was unable to attend the convention due to medical reasons.

He contributed "Chapter One" for the Eeriecon Chapbook #6 as well.

Most recently published

Dzur, the latest Dragaeran book, was published in early August 2006 by Tor Books. It has been selected as "a Sci-Fi Essential Book" as part of an arrangement between Tor and the Sci-Fi Channel. Dzur is a fantasy novel by Steven Brust in his Vlad Taltos series, originally published in 2006 by Tor Books. ... Tor Books is an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC which publishes popular fiction, and is particularly noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. ... SCI FI (sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ...

An excerpt of Dzur is available at SCI FI Essentials. These first few pages immediately follow the end of Issola.

Brokedown Palace was reprinted as of September 5, 2006 (per Amazon.com). This was the only Brust title previously out of print. Tor Books released it as an Orb trade paperback, as is their policy with reprinted works.

Introductions by Steven Brust

• In 1987, Tor Books published the book Dzurlord (A Crossroads Adventure in the World of Steven Brust's Jhereg). It is like a cross between a book and a game. Steven Brust wrote the introduction for this book, which introduced readers to the world of Dragaera and its inhabitants.
• Tor also published The Three Musketeers in paperback in 1994. Steven Brust introduced the edition, saying that this translation (anonymous, originally published in 1888) was his favorite.
• Steven Brust contributed the introduction for Manna from Heaven. Wildside Press published this collection of stories from the late Roger Zelazny in 2003.

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Inspired by Dragaera

• In 1993, SIL-West published a Live action role-playing game called Dragon, set in Dragaera. It was performed at BayCon '93.
• In addition, similar LARPS have been run at other conventions. ^{citation needed}

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Devera

The same character, usually a cute brown-eyed girl of about nine, appears as a motif in all of Brust's novels. In the Dragaeran books her name is Devera. She is the (future) daughter of another character and seems to be able to appear anywhere in time and space. In Brust's non-Dragaeran books she usually appears briefly and it is not always obvious where she appears. In literature, a motif is a recurring element or theme that has symbolic significance in the story. ...

Title nicknames

Brust is known for his propensity to create alternative titles for his books - and for his own amusement. These have cropped up in numerous interviews and online forums, starting with "Jarhead" for Jhereg. ^[1]

Only his collaborative books escape being nicknamed.

Other examples are:

• The Rain in Spain (To Reign in Hell)
• Aw Gee (Agyar)
• The Kleenex Guards (The Phoenix Guards)
• Ripple (Brokedown Palace)
• Crosby, Stills and Nash (The Sun, The Moon, And The Stars)
• Milqtoast (Taltos)
• Stir (Dzur)

Bibliography

Dragaera

• The Vlad Taltos novels (19 are planned in this series)
  1. Jhereg (1983)
  2. Yendi (1984)
  3. Teckla (1987)
  4. Taltos (1988)
  5. Phoenix (1990)
  6. Athyra (1993)
  7. Orca (1996)
  8. Dragon (1998)
  9. Issola (2001)
  10. Dzur (2006)
• The Khaavren Romances
  1. The Phoenix Guards (1991)
  2. Five Hundred Years After (1994)
  3. The Viscount of Adrilankha, published in three volumes:
     1. The Paths of the Dead (2002)
     2. The Lord of Castle Black (2003)
     3. Sethra Lavode (2004)
• Stand-alone
  • Brokedown Palace (1986)

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Other novels

• To Reign in Hell (1984)
• The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (1987)
• Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (1990)
• The Gypsy (1992) with Megan Lindholm
• Agyar (1993)
• Freedom & Necessity (1997) with Emma Bull
• My Own Kind of Freedom (written 2005, unpublished), a novel based on the Firefly television series

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Short stories

• “An Act of Contrition” in Liavek (1985, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly; Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology)
• “An Act of Trust” in Liavek: The Players of Luck (1986, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
• "A Dream of Passion" in the convention chapbook for Ad Astra (1986)
• “An Act of Mercy” in Liavek: Wizard's Row (1987, with Megan Lindholm; edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
• “An Act of Love” in Liavek: Spells of Binding (1988, with Gregory Frost and Megan Lindholm; edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
• “Csucskári” (Excerpt from The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars) in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection (1988, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling)
• “A Hot Night at Cheeky's” in Liavek: Festival Week (1990, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
• “Looking Forward: Excerpt from Athyra” in Amazing Stories, March 1993 (1993, edited by Kim Mohan)
• “Attention Shoppers” in Xanadu (1993, edited by Jane Yolen)
• “Drift” in Space Opera (1996, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
• “Valóság and Élet” in Sandman: Book of Dreams (1996, edited by Neil Gaiman and Edward E. Kramer)
• "Calling Pittsburgh" in Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny (1998, edited by Martin H. Greenberg)
• “When the Bow Breaks” in The Essential Bordertown (1998, edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman)
• “The Man From Shemhaza” in Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune (2004, edited by Lynn Abbey)
• “The Man From Shemhaza” in Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer; story reprint)
• "Klava with Honey" in Eeriecon Chapbook #4 for the convention Eeriecon (2005, via the Buffalo Fantasy League)
• "Chapter One" in Eeriecon Chapbook #6 for the convention Eeriecon (2007, via the Buffalo Fantasy League)

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Award nominations (and dubious honors)

Brust's short story "When The Bow Breaks" was nominated for the 1999 Nebula Award. The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years (see rolling eligibility below). ...

Five Hundred Years After was nominated for the 1995 Locus Poll Award (Best Fantasy Novel). Other novels nominated for various Locus Poll Awards were Brokedown Palace, The Gypsy, Agyar, and Freedom & Necessity. ^[2] The Locus Awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazines annual readers poll, which was established in the early 70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. ... The Locus Awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazines annual readers poll, which was established in the early 70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. ...

Dragon was a Finalist for the 1999 Minnesota Book Awards in the Fantasy & Science Fiction category. Freedom and Necessity was a 1998 Finalist for the same category, while The Phoenix Guards was a Finalist in 1992. ^[3]

Brust discovered in August 2006 that he had made the New York Times extended bestseller list at number 30 with Dzur. He mentioned his ambivalence on this subject online. ^[4] The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

SCI FI Wire posted an email interview with Brust after Dzur came out ^[5]

Music & other media

Brust played drums, specifically in the Minneapolis-based folk rock band Cats Laughing and also in the Albany Free Traders ^[6]. He released his only solo album, A Rose for Iconoclastes, in 1993. Two songs from this album were played by Doctor Demento: "I Was Born About Ten Million Songs Ago" (co-written with Nathan A. Bucklin) and "Backward Message."^[7] Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... Cats Laughing is a now-defunct folk rock band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Dr. Demento is the stage name of Barret (Barry) Hansen, who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs. ... Nathan A. Bucklin is a musician in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...

The 1995 Boiled in Lead enhanced CD Songs from the Gypsy featured songs by Brust and Adam Stemple, as well as the full text of the novel The Gypsy.^[8] Boiled in Lead is a semi-Celtic band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Adam Stemple, author, professional musician, and card player, is based in Minneapolis. ...

Cats Laughing also appears in issue #5 of a Marvel comic book called Excalibur. Steve is the only member of the band who is both seen onstage and named. Emma Bull also appears but names everyone else in the band except herself.^[9] Steve was seen again in a one-shot special issue, Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem, in which mutant superhero Shadowcat attends a Cats Laughing concert in Edinburgh and mentions previously having seen the band at Windycon. Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... Excalibur is a Marvel Comics superhero group, an offshoot of the X-Men, usually based in the United Kingdom. ... Emma Bull (born 3rd January 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. ... Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) is a Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Windycon is a science fiction convention held in the Chicago area on the weekend closest to Veterans Day. ...

Brust owned a Cadillac ambulance in Minnesota. It was painted yellow, light blue and dark blue (and with murals). Known as the Catmobile, the car was the band vehicle for Cats Laughing. The same car is also depicted on the "Another Way to Travel" album with the band members. This album, noted by its picture, has a cameo in the beginning of Emma Bull's novel Bone Dance. Emma Bull (born 3rd January 1954) is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. ...

Brust performed in several Shockwave Radio Theater productions, notably Closing Ceremonies (aka The Fall of the House of Usherette) and PBS Liavek. Shockwave Radio Theater is broadcast on Fresh Air Radio, the community radio station KFAI-FM in Minneapolis. ...

References

1. ^ Robinson, Tasha (2006-08-07). Science Fiction Weekly Interview.
2. ^ Award Bibliography http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit13.html#640 on LocusMag.com
3. ^ Past Finalists and Winners http://www.minnesotahumanities.org/Book/
4. ^ "I have a new first name" http://skzbrust.livejournal.com/18112.html says SKZB
5. ^ 24-AUGUST-06 interview http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=37635.
6. ^ Albany Free Traders publicity flyer http://gerisullivan.livejournal.com/84142.html
7. ^ Steven Brust, The Mad Music Archive, retrieved August 29, 2006.
8. ^ Olson, Chris (2006-08-07). Article: Interview: Steven Brust, by Chris Olson.
9. ^ Steven Who? http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/08/dzur.html

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External links

• The Dream Café - Steven Brust's own homepage
• Steven Brust's LiveJournal
• The Lyorn Records, a Dragaera Wiki
• Steven Brust's Travel & Event Schedule
• Dragaera - a site authorized by Brust, with a mailing list, resources, and links to many fan pages
• Brainyquote - Quotes

Bibliographies and fan pages

• Damien Sullivan's Steven Brust Fan Page
• Cracks and Shards - Mark A. Mandel's extensive Dragaera fansite
• Steven Brust at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography on SciFan

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Interviews and reviews

• Email interview of Steven Brust by QuantumMuse.com
• Email interview by Spherical Time
• Interview with Fantasybookspot.com
• Strange Horizons 2003 Review
• Rambles review
• Review of _Brokedown Palace_
• Brust reviews at Ex Libris
• Green Man Review of Khaavren Romances
• DZUR review at BoingBoing.net
• Firefly reading report from OASIS 19 convention
• Interactive bio & reviews
• Review of DZUR
• Review of "Songs from _The Gypsy_"