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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 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)
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 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)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This thoroughly refreshing, informative novel contains disparate components that coalesce nicely: an examination of how five struggling artists who share a studio interact with each other, a discourse from one of them about his craft, and a Hungarian fairy tale featuring Csucskari, a gypsy who tries to find the sun, moon and stars and restore them to the vacant heavens. Narrator Greg and his friends routinely assemble at the studio to work and exchange ideas. After three years, however, their enthusiasm ebbs as solvency and acclaim seem no closer. The five contemplate disbanding, while Greg labors on an immense, ambitious painting entitled Death of Uranus. With engaging unpretentiousness he explains some fundamental artistic issues to the reader: technique, the difficulties inherent in creating visually and intellectually stimulating paintings and the vacuousness of ``pretty'' pictures. Interspersed throughout the book is a fairy tale also told by Greg, who excitingly chronicles Csucskari's skirmishes with dragons and other foes. This fanciful fable ingeniously reinforces the book's principle theme of persevering despite adversity, yet it is Greg's amiable, frank discussion of his vocation that truly fascinates. (May 1) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
According to the publisher, this is the first of ""an ongoing series of fantasy novels . . .retelling, well-loved, classic fairy and folk tales."" This particular well-loved classic concerns the gypsy wizard Csucskari, who vows to locate the sun, moon and stars (they are hidden in a cave at the end of the world) and replace them in the sky; his reward will be half the kingdom plus the hand of the king's daughter in marriage. Interspersed with this brief but amusing tale is the remaining nine tenths of the book: an orthodox rendering of the trials and tribulations of a studio of starving artists as they work, argue, and try to scrape together the wherewithal to mount the exhibition that might save the studio from breaking up. The only discernible connection between the two yarns is that the gypsy tale is being told to the studio members by Greg Kovaks, one of the artists. The arty bits are occasionally interesting but more often plain dull, as Greg endlessly explains his artistic perceptions and impulses. All very well. But does it qualify as fantasy? No. Is it, in fact, a retelling of a folk tale? No. And readers who buy the book on that basis will have every right to feel aggrieved. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review
This thoroughly refreshing, informative novel contains disparate components that coalesce nicely: an examination of how five struggling artists who share a studio interact with each other, a discourse from one of them about his craft, and a Hungarian fairy tale featuring Csucskari, a gypsy who tries to find the sun, moon and stars and restore them to the vacant heavens. Narrator Greg and his friends routinely assemble at the studio to work and exchange ideas. After three years, however, their enthusiasm ebbs as solvency and acclaim seem no closer. The five contemplate disbanding, while Greg labors on an immense, ambitious painting entitled Death of Uranus. With engaging unpretentiousness he explains some fundamental artistic issues to the reader: technique, the difficulties inherent in creating visually and intellectually stimulating paintings and the vacuousness of ``pretty'' pictures. Interspersed throughout the book is a fairy tale also told by Greg, who excitingly chronicles Csucskari's skirmishes with dragons and other foes. This fanciful fable ingeniously reinforces the book's principle theme of persevering despite adversity, yet it is Greg's amiable, frank discussion of his vocation that truly fascinates. (May 1) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
According to the publisher, this is the first of ""an ongoing series of fantasy novels . . .retelling, well-loved, classic fairy and folk tales."" This particular well-loved classic concerns the gypsy wizard Csucskari, who vows to locate the sun, moon and stars (they are hidden in a cave at the end of the world) and replace them in the sky; his reward will be half the kingdom plus the hand of the king's daughter in marriage. Interspersed with this brief but amusing tale is the remaining nine tenths of the book: an orthodox rendering of the trials and tribulations of a studio of starving artists as they work, argue, and try to scrape together the wherewithal to mount the exhibition that might save the studio from breaking up. The only discernible connection between the two yarns is that the gypsy tale is being told to the studio members by Greg Kovaks, one of the artists. The arty bits are occasionally interesting but more often plain dull, as Greg endlessly explains his artistic perceptions and impulses. All very well. But does it qualify as fantasy? No. Is it, in fact, a retelling of a folk tale? No. And readers who buy the book on that basis will have every right to feel aggrieved. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.