Mastodawn

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway on bsky: 10 copies of #TheBookOfJhereg, the #VladTaltos collections 1 (containing the first three #Taltos books) by #StevenBrust, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3meopz25f2k2y

Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies of The Book of Jhereg (Vlad Taltos Collections 1) by @stevenbrust.bsky.social, which I *have* and *have read* and *was delighted to see go on sale so I could give it away*. I have no idea how many sequels exist now, tbh.

Bluesky Social

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 12

A quotation from Steven Brust

The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature states that all literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool, and the reader will enjoy the work to the degree that the reader and writer agree about what’s cool — and this functions all the way from the external trappings to deepest level of theme and to the way the writer uses words.

Steven Brust (b. 1955) American writer, systems programmer
Interview (2003-02-03) by Chris Olson, Strange Horizons

More info about this quote: wist.info/brust-steven/79636/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stevenbrust #author #coolstuff #literature #reader #writing

Mad B Aug 24, 2025

Here's another #hotTake: internal chronological reading order is an embarrassing desecration of a book series

Order as written means that insights appear for the reader as they appear for the author

I really appreciate that in the #vladTaltos books #StevenBrust set out to make internal chronological impossible

Robin Marx's Writing Repository Feb 4, 2025

Capsule Review Archive – The Book of Taltos by Steven Brust

https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-the-book-of-taltos-by-steven-brust

Capsule Review Archive – The Book of Taltos by Steven Brust

This review originally appeared on Goodreads on June 21, 2012. The Book of Taltos By Steven Brust – Ace – January 8, 2002 Review by ...

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Michael Rawdon Jun 23, 2024

Huh, it looks like I'm about to read the last of the #StevenBrust #Dragaera novels which has a mass market paperback edition (Jhegaala, 2008).

Now I'll have to figure out how I want to continue reading the series, since I ha-a-ate the trade paperback format, especially when I already own the whole rest of the series in mass market.

Might just go with the library.

(I didn't finish Kage Baker's Company series until after she passed away (!!) because the fourth book never came out in mass market. I finally read the rest on Apple Books.)

Strypey Apr 18, 2024

‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’

#StevenBrust, quoted by Cory Doctorow

https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/

#politics #PoliticalPhilosophy

Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism

In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…

Locus Online

Cory Doctorow Mar 27, 2024

Today's post office run was a fuckin BANGER

#VladTaltos #books #sciencefiction #fantasy #scribblies #mannerpunk #stevenbrust

Strypey Mar 5, 2024

"'Left' and 'right' mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’

#StevenBrust, quoted by Cory Doctorow

https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/

@cass_m

Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism

Locus Online

Michael Rawdon Jan 29, 2024

New journal entry, “#StevenBrust: Vlad the Wanderer”: https://www.fascinationplace.org/2024/01/28/steven-brust-vlad-the-wanderer/

My reviews of the second "arc" of the Vlad Taltos series.

#journal #blog

Steven Brust: Vlad the Wanderer

A little over a year ago I reviewed the first arc of Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series. A year later, here I am to review the second arc. I don’t know that Brust thinks of this series i…

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Cory Doctorow Dec 1, 2023

IV. Tsalmoth by #StevenBrust

Longrunning Brust hero Vlad Taltos has been convinced to recount the story of how he and Cawti came to fall in love, and how they planned their marriage. This is quite an adventure – it plays out against the backdrop of a gang-war within the Jhereg organization, with Vlad in severe mortal peril that he can only avoid by uncovering an intricate criminal caper of crosses, double-crosses, smuggling and sorcery.

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