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From bestselling fantasy author Steven Brust comes this paranormal novel of immortality-and its price...Born over a century ago, Agyar was once a frivolous young man, before he found unwanted immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he goes from woman to woman, and decade to decade, finding himself at last in an Midwestern college town, where he must choose between the seductions of salvation-and of destruction.

House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head on Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera-longtime friend, sometime ally-has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime.It doesn't make sense. Everybody knows Aliera's been dabbling in elder sorcery for ages. Why is the Empire down on her now? Why aren't her powerful friends-M...

This is the compendium featuring "Taltos" and "Phoenix"--two more novels in Brust's classic series featuring the intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon companion.

Khaavren of the House of Tiassa arrives in the heart of the Draegaran Empire with only his good breeding and his "tolerable" swordsmanship to protect. But when he joins the rambunctious Phoenix Guards, he and his rowdy comrades must save the Empire from collapse . . . and invasion.

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The Book of Jhereg and The Book of Taltos collected the first five novels of Steven Brust's highly imaginative fantasy series that Locus praised as "entertaining and worth reading.” The Book of Athyra features books six and seven in the series—Athyra and Orca. Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin without peer—as deadly at spell casting as he is with sword wielding. Accompanying him on his journeys are two leathery-winged jhereg who share a t...

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From the bestselling author of Jhereg and Taltos comes a charming fantasy tale. Once upon a time there were four brothers who ruled the land of Fenario--along with a goddess, a wizard, an enigmatic talking stallion, and a very hungry dragon--and lived in a crumbling, Brokedown Palace on the banks of the River of Faerie. Beneath the palace the foundations trembled, for something was rotten in Fenario.

Cuando el joven Khaavren decide enrolarse en la Guardia Imperial en busca de aventuras, poco podía sospechar que de él y de sus compañeros dependería el futuro del Imperio Dragaerano. Y en un mundo en el que la traición está presente en los lugares más insospechados, la propia vida y los ideales deben respaldarse con astucia, mucha capacidad de improvisación y, sobre todo, la fuerza de la espada. Escrita en la mejor tradición de la novela fant...

This sequel to The Phoenix Guards sees the reuniting of Heroes Khaavren, Pel, Aerich and Tazendra 500 years later. . . just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself. "A complex plot to which Brust does full justice . . . Highly recommended".--Booklist.

From Earth to the Moon to Mars to another solar system, Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is always just a 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.