Steven Brust
Autor/a de Jhereg
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: David Dyer-Bennet
Sèrie
Obres de Steven Brust
A Vlad Taltos Collection: Dragon, Issola, Dzur, Jhegaala, Iorich, Tiassa, Hawk, Vallista (2019) 6 exemplars
Paarfirotica 5 exemplars
Valasag and Elet 2 exemplars
The Book of Taltos 2 exemplars
Calling Pittsburgh 2 exemplars
The Man from Shemhaza 1 exemplars
The Book of Jhereg : 1 exemplars
The Ballad Of Shemhaza 1 exemplars
A Dream of Passion 1 exemplars
Bluff 1 exemplars
Dragaera: Steven Brust, the Viscount of Adrilankha, Dragaera, Issola, Taltos, Phoenix, Khaavren Romances, Jhegaala,… (2010) 1 exemplars
Attention Shoppers {poem} 1 exemplars
Run Back Across the Border [short story] 1 exemplars
Shadow of the Therapist (Flash Fiction) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Eeriecon Chapbook #4 — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
DreamForge Magazine Issue 1: Tales of Hope in the Universe (DreamForge Magazine Year 1) (2019) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Brust, Steven Karl Zoltán
- Data de naixement
- 1955-11-23
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- St Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Texas, USA - Professions
- science fiction writer
fantasy writer
musician - Organitzacions
- Cats Laughing (drummer)
Pre-Joycean Fellowship - Agent
- Valerie Smith
Membres
Converses
Jhereg by Steven Brust: Fantasy February Group Read a 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (juny 2013)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 68
- També de
- 19
- Membres
- 32,539
- Popularitat
- #595
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 616
- ISBN
- 216
- Llengües
- 11
- Preferit
- 177
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.… (més)