1. Steven Karl Zoltan Brust was born on November 23,1955 and is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent.
19 Facts About Steven Brust
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Steven Brust is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera.
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Steven Brust co-wrote songs on two albums recorded in the mid-1990s by the band Boiled in Lead.
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Steven Brust has written another series set in Dragaera, the Khaavren Romances, set centuries before Vlad's time.
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Steven Brust was a founding member of a Minnesota-based writers' group called The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede.
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Steven Brust was a founding member of the Pre-Joycean Fellowship.
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Steven Brust has rejected a distinction between science fiction and fantasy, stating that no belief in such a distinction can withstand an encounter with the writing of Roger Zelazny.
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Steven Brust uses a different narrative approach in almost every novel in the Taltos series.
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The events and arguments of his books, especially Teckla, are acknowledged by Steven Brust to be influenced by his lifelong interest in Marxist theory and practice.
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Steven Brust's parents were activists in the Workers League, the predecessor to the Socialist Equality Party, and he continues to identify as a "Trotskyist sympathizer," linking to the SEP-affiliated World Socialist Web Site on his personal website.
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Steven Brust endorsed the SEP's presidential candidates in the 2016 US elections.
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In contrast to contemporary academic studies in literature, Steven Brust has put forward what he called "The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature":.
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Steven Brust is the daughter of another character and seems to be able to appear anywhere in time and space.
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Steven Brust is a singer-songwriter and drummer who has recorded a solo album, and who has played in the Minneapolis-based folk rock band Cats Laughing, and with the Albany Free Traders, and Morrigan.
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Steven Brust co-wrote two songs on the 1994 album Antler Dance by the band Boiled in Lead, as well as many of the songs on BiL's 1995 multimedia CD Songs from The Gypsy.
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The car, owned by Steven Brust, was a Cadillac ambulance, painted yellow, light blue, and dark blue, with murals.
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Steven Brust has performed dramatically in several Shockwave Radio Theater productions, notably Closing Ceremonies and PBS Liavek.
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Steven Brust discovered in August 2006 that he had made the New York Times extended bestseller list at number 30 with Dzur.
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Steven Brust's novels have been translated into numerous languages, including Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.