The Desecrator: A Tor.com Original

Steven Brust

Mar 2011 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

"The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantasy series.


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Ratings and reviews

Brust manages to demonstrate that he can change his "voice" with the ease I change my socks, without losing any ability to evoke characters and images from his other stories. Packs a surprising amount of material info so few words.

Coming from a RPG background I found this highly entertaining. It took a bit of time to understand that I was eavesdropping on one side of a telepathic conversation and I always enjoy the ride Brust takes me on.

Always loved Daymar so that was the biggest attraction. Short and none too deep, but trademark Brust writing style. Well worth the short time it takes to read.

About the author

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers, Steven Brust worked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with Jhereg, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived, magically-empowered human-like "Dragaerans."

Over the next several years, several more "Taltos" novels followed, interspersed with other work, including 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 a science fiction novel, Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille. The most recent "Taltos" novels are Dragon and Issola. In 1991, with The Phoenix Guards, Brust began another series, set a thousand years earlier than the Taltos books; its sequels are Five Hundred Years After and the three volumes of "The Viscount of Adrilankha": The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of Castle Black, and Sethra Lavode.

While writing, Brust has continued to work as a musician, playing drums for the legendary band Cats Laughing and recording an album of his own work, A Rose for Iconoclastes. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where he pursues an ongoing interest in stochastics.