Steven Brust Books In Order

The Book of Jhereg

FICTION,ADVENTURE. CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TEXT OFTHE FIRST THREE ADVENTURESOF VLAD TALTOS…
JHEREG, YENDI AND TECKLA

Yendi

Vlad Taltos tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in love with the wonderful woman, Yendi, who killed him.

Taltos

Lord Vlad Taltos returns in the prequel to Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla in a fantastic adventure in which readers learn what really happened when Vlad found himself walking the Paths of the Dead.

Phoenix

The new two in one omnibus featuring two classic novels of Vlad Taltos and his winged jhereg companions Athyra and Orca. Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin without peer as deadly at spell casting as he is with sword wielding. Accompanying him on his journeys are two leathery winged jhereg who share a telepathic link with Vlad and triple his chances against even the most powerful of enemies…
In Athyra, Vlad finds he’s ready to retire himself and his jhereg companions, but the biggest hitters of the House of the Jhereg have something else in mind. In Orca, Vlad must repay a debt to a boy who saved his life even if it means breaking a scandal big enough to bring down the House of the Orca, and possibly the entire Empire.

Athyra

The new two in one omnibus featuring two classic novels of Vlad Taltos and his winged jhereg companions Athyra and Orca. Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin without peer as deadly at spell casting as he is with sword wielding. Accompanying him on his journeys are two leathery winged jhereg who share a telepathic link with Vlad and triple his chances against even the most powerful of enemies…
In Athyra, Vlad finds he’s ready to retire himself and his jhereg companions, but the biggest hitters of the House of the Jhereg have something else in mind. In Orca, Vlad must repay a debt to a boy who saved his life even if it means breaking a scandal big enough to bring down the House of the Orca, and possibly the entire Empire.

Orca

With the help of his two jhereg, sorcerer and former assassin for hire Vlad Taltos takes on the corrupt House of the Orca as he sets out to uncover a huge financial scandal.

Dragon

In which Vlad Taltos finds himself, much to his surprise, at the fateful Battle of Baritt’s Tomb Marching through mud just isn’t as much fun as they say. After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade I know best killing people for a living suddenly I’m in the last place any self respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Worse, I’m right in the middle of a apocalyptic battle between two sorcerous armies, and everyone expects me to play a role they won’t explain. All I’ve got between me and the worst kind of death is my wits. Oh, and a smart mouthed winged lizard…

Issola

Okay, so maybe I’ve been living in the woods too long, where you can’t even get a decent cup of klava first thing in the morning. So who should turn up but Lady Teldra, the courtly servant of my old friend the Dragonlord Morrolan?Teldra wants my help, because Morrolan and Aliera have disappeared, and according to Sethra Lavode, it looks like they may be in the hands of the Jenoine. Do I want to mess with them? The guys who made this place? And I thought I had problems before…
Oh well, what’s a little cosmic battle with beings who control time and space? It’s better than hunkering down in the woods without even so much as a drinkable cup of klava.

Dzur

In which Vlad Taltos confronts the Left Hand of the Jhereg and discovers the game has more players than he thought

Vlad Taltos, short statured, short lived human in an Empire of tall, long lived Dragaerans, has always had to keep his wits about him. Long ago, he made a place for himself as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the great imperial city of Adrilankha. But love, revolution, betrayal, and revenge ensued, and for years now Vlad has been a man on the run, struggling to stay a step ahead of the Jhereg who would kill him without hesitation.

Now Vlad’s back in Adrilankha. The rackets he used to run are now under the control of the mysterious Left Hand of the Jhereg a secretive cabal of women who report to no man. His ex wife needs his help. His old enemies aren t sure whether they want to kill him, or talk to him and then kill him. A goddess may be playing tricks with his memory. And the Great Weapon he s carrying seems to have plans of its own

Picking up directly where Issola left off, Dzur gives us Vlad Taltos at his best swashbuckling storytelling with a wry and gritty edge.

Jhegaala

Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. All he knows about them is that their family name is Merss and that they live in a papermaking industrial town called Burz. At first Burz isn t such a bad place, though the paper mill reeks to high heaven. But the longer he stays there, the stranger it becomes. No one will tell him where to find his relatives. Even stranger, when he mentions the name Merss, people think he’s threatening them. The witches coven that every Fenarian town and city should have is nowhere in evidence. And the Guild, which should be protecting the city s craftsmen and traders, is an oppressive, all powerful organization, into which no tradesman would ever be admitted. Then a terrible thing happens. In its wake, far from Draegara, without his usual organization working for him, Vlad is going to have to do his sleuthing amidst an alien people: his own.

Iorich

House Jhereg, Dragaera’s organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There’s a big price on his head on Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera longtime friend, sometime ally has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime. It doesn’t make sense. Everybody knows Aliera’s been dabbling in elder sorcery for ages. Why is the Empire down on her now? Why aren’t her powerful friends Morrolan, Sethra, the Empress Zerika coming to her rescue? And most to the point, why has she utterly refused to do anything about her own defense?It would be idiotic of Vlad to jump into this situation. He’s a former Jhereg who betrayed the House. He’s an Easterner small, weak, short lived. He’s being searched for by the most remorseless killers in the world. Naturally, that’s exactly why he’s going to get completely involved…

Tiassa

Long ago, one of the gods fashioned an artifact called the silver Tiassa. To Devera the Wanderer, it was a pretty toy to play with. To Vlad Taltos, it was a handy prop for a con he was running. To the Empire, it was a tool to be used against their greatest enemies the Jenoine. To the Jhereg, it was a trap to kill Vlad. The silver Tiassa, however, had its own agenda. Tiassa will cover more than ten years in Vlad’s life and, to the delight of longtime fans, will bring him together with Khaavren, from The Phoenix Guards and its sequels. Who may be Vlad’s new best friend or his most terrible enemy.

Brokedown Palace

Back in print after a decade, a stand alone fantasy in the world of Steven Brust’s bestselling ‘Vlad Taltos’ novels. Once upon a time far to the East of the Dragaeran Empire, four brothers ruled in Fenario:King Laszlo, a good man though perhaps a little mad;Prince Andor, a clever man though perhaps a little shallow;Prince Vilmos, a strong man though perhaps a little stupid; andPrince Miklos, the youngest brother, perhaps a little no, a lot stubborn. Once upon a time there were four brothers and a goddess, a wizard, an enigmatic talking stallion, a very hungry dragon and a crumbling, broken down palace with hungry jhereg circling overhead. And then

The Phoenix Guards

A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive and an easy place to die. Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and ‘tolerably well acquainted with its use.’ Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement. But in a realm renowned for repartee and betrayals, where power is as mutable as magic, a young man like Khaavren, newly come from the countryside, had best be wary. His life depends on it. And so does the future of Dragaera. When swordplay beckons, it’s all for one and one for…
The Phoenix Guards.

Five Hundred Years After

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 where Khaavren has loyally served in the Guards this past half millenium.

It is the tale of the Dragonlord Adron’s overweening schemes, of his brilliant daughter Aliera, and of the eldritch Sethra Lavode.

And it is the tale of four boon companions, of love, and of revenge a tale from the history of Dragaera, of the events that changed the world.

The Paths of the Dead

The long awaited sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years AfterTwo 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 to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire s power, of their capital city with its Impe rial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life. Now the descendants and successors of the great ad venturers Khaavren, Pel, Aerich, and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world, con vinced, like their elders, that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are, of course, wrong…
. For even deprived of magic, Dragaerans fight, plot, and conspire as they breathe, and so do their still powerful gods. The enemies of the Empire prowl at its edges, in scrutable doings are up at Dzur Mountain…
and, unex pectedly, a surviving Phoenix Heir, young Zerika, is discovered setting off a chain of swashbuckling events that will remake the world yet again.

The Lord of Castle Black

With his bestselling novel The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust took readers to a time a thousand years before the events of his popular Vlad Taltos novels. Its sequel, Five Hundred Years After, was hailed by Science Fiction Chronicle as the best fantasy novel of the year.

Now Brust has returned to the Khaavren epic, first with last year’s The Paths of the Dead, and now with its direct continuation, The Lord of Castle Black…
a novel that gives Vlad Taltos and Khaavren fans alike a new look at one of Brust’s most popular characters, the Dragonlord Morrolan.

Along the way, we’ll also encounter swordplay, intrigues, quests, battles, romance, snappy dialogue, and the missing heir to the Imperial Throne. It’s an old fashioned adventure, moving at a twenty first century pace.

Sethra Lavode

Sethra Lavode
Book Three of The Viscount of Adrilankha

She’s the oldest person in the Dragaeran Empire, a military genius and master of sorcery whose own story stretches back to before the dawn of history. She’s Sethra Lavode, the undead Enchantress of Dzur Mountain. Now, after a long absence, she’s returned to take an active role in the Empire’s affairs and the affairs of her friends Khaavren, Pel, Tazendra, Aerich, and all their friends and relations.

Since the day Adron’s Disaster reduced Dragaera City to a barren sea of amorphia, the Empire has been in ruins. The Emperor is gone, along with the Orb that was both his badge of office and the source of the magical power that in former times was practically a public utility. Trade has collapsed. Brigands rule the roads. Plagues sweep through the population. And an ambitious Dragonlord, the Duke of K na, has moved to rebuild the Empire in his own name, of course.

Unknown to him, Sethra Lavode has already helped the Phoenix Zerika, true heir to the throne, retrieve the Orb from the Paths of the Dead. Sethra means to see Zerika on the throne. But making it so will entail a climactic battle of sorcery and arms…

To Reign In Hell

Steven Brusts Vlad Taltos novels and his swashbuckling tales of Khaavren have earned him an enthusiastic audience world wide. But To Reign In Hell has been out of print for yearscausing used copies to trade for improbable sums. Now, at last, To Reign In Hellreturns to print in a paperback edition, with an introduction by Roger Zelazny.

The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

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 who feared they were doomed to obscurity, for though they worked and they worked, no one was interested in the paintings that stood in racks along their studio walls. The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars is a tale of two quests, of two young men who are reaching for the moon. And the sun. And the stars.

Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grill

Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille serves the best matzoh ball soup in the Galaxy, and hires some of the best musicians you ll ever hear. It s a great place to visit, but it tends to move around just one step ahead of whatever mysterious conspiracy is reducing whole worlds to radioactive ash. And Cowboy Feng’s may be humanity’s last hope for survival.

The Gypsy (With: Megan Lindholm)

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 city and the Lady’s dark designs.

Agyar

A novel of immortality and its priceBorn 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 himself at last in an Midwestern college town, where he must choose between the seductions of salvation and of destruction.

Freedom and Necessity

It is 1849. Across Europe, the high tide of revolution has crested, leaving recrimination and betrayal in its wake. From the high councils of Prussia to the corridors of Parliament, the powers that be breathe sighs of relief. But the powers that be are hardly unified among themselves. Far from it…
On the south coast of England, London man about town James Cobham comes to himself in a country inn, with no idea how he got there. Corresponding with his cousin, he discovers himself to have been presumed drowned in a boating accident. Together they decide that he should stay put for the moment, while they investigate what may have transpired. For James Cobham is a wanted man wanted by conspiring factions of the government and the Chartists alike, and also the target of a magical conspiracy inside his own family. And so the adventure begins…
leading the reader through every corner of mid nineteenth century Britain, from the parlors of the elite to the dens of the underclass. Not since Wilkie Collins or Conan Doyle has there been such a profusion of guns, swordfights, family intrigues, women disguised as men, occult societies, philosophical discussions, and, of course, passionate romance. Nor could any writing team but Steven Brust and Emma Bull make it quite so much fun…

Double Feature (By:Emma Bull,Will Shetterly)

This trade paperback reprint of the Boskone 31 Book contains 13 pieces of fiction, non fiction, and poetry plus brief biographies and bibligoraphies of each author and an introduction by Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Cover Art by Nick Jainschigg.