BRUST, Steven (Karl Zoltan)

(1955-)

   US writer, almost exclusively of fantasy, mentioned here for Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (1990), an intermittently comic spoof about a saloon which dodges atomic HOLOCAUSTS by leaping through time and space to other planets, where a mysterious enemy awaits. Some of SB's novels, like The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (1987), are more FABULATION than fantasy.

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   Other works: The Vlad Taltos fantasy series, comprising Jhereg (1983), Yendi (1984) and Teckla (1986) - all three assembled as Taltos the Assassin (omni 1991 UK) - Taltos (1988; vt Taltos and the Paths of the Dead 1991 UK), Phoenix (1990and Athyra (1993)), plus The Phoenix Guards (1991), set earlier in the Vlad Taltos universe, and Five Hundred Years After (1994) To Reign in Hell (1984); Brokedown Palace (1986); Gypsy (1992) with Megan Lindholm (1952-); Agyar (1993).