The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

Steven Brust

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Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world.

Once upon a time there was a studio of artists who feared they were doomed to obscurity, for though they worked and they worked, no one was interested in the paintings that stood in racks along their studio walls.

The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars is a tale of two quests, of two young men who are reaching for the moon. And the sun. And the stars.

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Chapter
ONE
 
1. THE LAMENTATION
 
 
YOU WANT TO KNOW what good is? I’ll tell you what good is.
My freshman year at the University my roommate was a guy named Phil. In addition to the room, we shared a couple of art classes and a weakness for Girodet. We were in one of the newer dorms, all shiny and tiny and boring and beige. One time when we were bitching about how cramped it was, he got a funny look in his eyes. I hardly saw him for the next week.

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"Steven Brust is a master stylist." --Publishers Weekly

"In a genre that's mostly done by the numbers, Steven Brush maintains a hipster charm and an originality of mind." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Brust

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.

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The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
Steven Brust

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Tom Doherty Associates
Orb Books
June 1996
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ISBN: 9780312860394
ISBN10: 0312860390
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 224 pages
$15.99
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