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 aroundjust 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.
Steven Brust's time-traveling, science fiction thriller is a rollicking, fun read.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers,
Steven Brustworked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer with
Jhereg, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos. He has written more than twenty novels in Taltoss Dragaeran Empire, including the spin-off series The Phoenix Guards and The Viscount of Adrilankha. Brusts other works include
To Reign in Hell, a fantasy re-working of Milton's war in Heaven;
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, a contemporary fantasy based on Hungarian folktales; and the science fiction novel,
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille.
Consummate grace and genuine artistry. Roger Zelazny
Steven Brust just might be America's best fantasy writer. Tad Williams