The time is the Beginning. The place is Heaven. The story is the Revolt of the Angels--a war of magic, corruption and intrigue that could destroy the universe. "To Reign in Hell" was Stephen Brust's second novel, and it's a thrilling retelling of the revolt of the angels, through the lens of epic fa[...]
Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world. Once upon a time there was a studio of artists[...]
Vlad Taltos x 3! Three Steven Brust fantasy novels in one all-new edition-featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion. A welcome addition to any fantasy fan's library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion t[...]
Steven Brust's first three novels featuring assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion were collected in one volume as The Book of Jhereg. The Book of Taltos continues the adventure with books four and five in the series--Taltos and Phoenix. Vlad Taltos is an assassin unlike no other. Not only is[...]
The Book of Jhereg and The Book of Taltos collected the first five novels of Steven Brust's highly imaginative fantasy series that Locus praised as "entertaining and worth reading." The Book of Athyra features books six and seven in the series--Athyra and Orca. Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin[...]
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From bestselling fantasy author Steven Brust comes this paranormal novel of immortality--and its price... Born over a century ago, Agyar was once a frivolous young man, before he found unwanted immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he goes from woman to woman, and decade to decade, finding hi[...]
Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic. Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake. The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gypsy's broken memories stand between Stepovich's beloved [...]
Ruling the land of Fenario with the aid of a goddess, a wizard, an enigmatic talking stallion, and a very hungry dragon, the four brothers of the Brokedown Palace--King Laszlo, Prince Andor, Prince Vilmos, and Prince Miklos--face a devastating threat that looms over their kingdom. Reprint. 17,500 fi[...]
Staying just one step ahead of the government factions and magical family conspiracy that want him dead, James Cobham embarks on an adventure that takes him into every corner of mid-nineteenth-century English society. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.[...]
In which our heroes are reunited a mere five centuries later... just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself This is the story of the conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of the Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the Palace [...]
Years ago, Vlad Taltos came from the East, to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran House (of which there are seventeen) that handles the Empire's vices: gambling, rackets, organized crime. He[...]
House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head in Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera - long-time friend, sometime ally - has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime. It d[...]
The first seven of "Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos" novels have long been in print from Ace Books in a set of three trade paperback omnibuses. Now Tor, publisher of the series from book eight on, continues the series of omnibuses by putting Dragon and Issola into print in that format. In "Dragon", Vlad [...]
In Spring 2011, Tor put the next two "Vlad" books, "Dragon" and "Issola", into print as a trade paperback entitled "The Book of Dragon". Now we continue with the next two, collecting the "New York Times"-bestselling "Dzur" and "Jhegaala" into "The Book of Dzur". In "Dzur", Vlad is back in the great [...]
Journeys Intrigues Sword fights Young persons having adventures Beloved older characters having adventures too Quests Battles Romance Snappy dialogue Extravagant food "And" the missing heir to the Imperial Throne
It's an old-fashioned adventure--moving at a twenty-first-century pace. [...]
Once, Vlad Taltos knew his trade: he killed people for a living. That skill got him his foothold in House Jhereg, running the rackets for a chunk of urban Adrilankha. Later, things happened that left Vlad a changed man, on the run from the Jhereg and frequently involved in the affairs of Dragonlords[...]
"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." --John ScalziThe Incrementalists--a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicat[...]
The oldest person in the Dragaeran Empire. A military genius and master of sorcery whose story stretches back to before the dawn of history. Now, after a long absence, the undead Sethra Lavode, the Enchantress of Dzur Mountain, has reentered the Empire's affairs. And the affairs of Khaavren and Pel,[...]
The Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his "Last Stand" survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography book provides a view of the battlefield as[...]
"The Paths of the Dead" is Steven Brust's long-awaited sequel to "The Phoenix Guards" and "Five Hundred Years After."Two hundred years after Adron's Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn't what it used t[...]