Steven Brust
Auteur van Huis Jhereg
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van Steven Brust
A Vlad Taltos Collection: Dragon, Issola, Dzur, Jhegaala, Iorich, Tiassa, Hawk, Vallista (2019) 6 exemplaren
Paarfirotica 5 exemplaren
Valasag and Elet 2 exemplaren
The Book of Taltos 2 exemplaren
Calling Pittsburgh 2 exemplaren
The Book of Jhereg, The Book of Taltos,The Book of Athyra (The Book of Jhereg, The First Three Adventures of Vlad… 2 exemplaren
The Man from Shemhaza 1 exemplaar
The Book of Jhereg : 1 exemplaar
The Ballad Of Shemhaza 1 exemplaar
A Dream of Passion 1 exemplaar
Bluff 1 exemplaar
Dragaera: Steven Brust, the Viscount of Adrilankha, Dragaera, Issola, Taltos, Phoenix, Khaavren Romances, Jhegaala,… (2010) 1 exemplaar
Attention Shoppers {poem} 1 exemplaar
Run Back Across the Border [short story] 1 exemplaar
Shadow of the Therapist (Flash Fiction) 1 exemplaar
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Eeriecon Chapbook #4 — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
DreamForge Magazine Issue 1: Tales of Hope in the Universe (DreamForge Magazine Year 1) (2019) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- Brust, Steven Karl Zoltán
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- 1955-11-23
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- St Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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- science fiction writer
fantasy writer
musician - Organisaties
- 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 (juni 2013)
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The expected stylistic experimentation, this time, has the structure mirror the subject: the subject is a musical production (where Vlad us hiding out and whose performance becomes of importance to him), and each chapter not only begins with a song from the musical but has a third party central scene - there are several scene shifts per chapter - which involves third party narration; I think of them as chorus scenes because they are part of the way in which almost every character who has been significant gets a bit part. (Except for the one you might expect, whose absence is noted. But I might have missed a glancing appearance by Devera.)
The songs are parodies of American musical songs, with a couple of G&S songs thrown in for good measure. They're fun in themselves. The musical is about the production of a musical, so some are about the production aspects, and some are about the subject of the musical, which is also the subject of a short history book which is excerpted throughout the story as Vlad reads it.
At the same time, there's a general issue which has (Vlad is told, by Verra) been building since Adron's disaster. Vlad has a role to play, though which role he will end up playing is as yet not clear. One of the transitions in the book is in Vlad's attitude to what he might be doing, and why.
Accordingly this starts to make a whole set of connections between various events in the previous books in the series. It's definitely not a book to read as an introduction to the series.
There is one constraint remaining making it very unclear what is happening:
Overall, an entirely welcome addition to an already excellent series.… (meer)