Steven Brust

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, and Patricia Wrede, and also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. He is best known for his novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos.

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The Taltos series is set on another world (possibly another planet), in an empire mostly inhabited by the Dragaerans, who are humanoid but have such differences as greatly-extended lifespans, and heights averaging about 7 feet. Referred to as "elfs" by some humans, they refer to themselves as "human". Vlad Taltos is one of the human minority (known by Dragaerans as "Easterners") and practices the human art of witchcraft ("táltos" is Hungarian for a kind of supernatural person in folklore). Though human, he is a citizen of the empire because his social-climber father paid a lot of money to be adopted into one of the 17 Dragaeran Great Houses. The only Great House that sells memberships this way is, not coincidentally, also the one that maintains a criminal organization, which Vlad joins. Despite being a human and a criminal, Vlad has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends, and often gets caught up in important events.

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