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{{quote|''[[Steven Brust]] began his Jhereg series in 1983, and I read it that year when I was 12 years old. I loved the wisecracking assassin and his magical familiar, the sword-and-sorcery milieu and the skullduggery that the protagonist, Vlad Taltos, gets up to as he triumphs in a baroque gang war among factions of a giant criminal organisation.''
''About 37 years and 14 books later, Brust is nearly finished with the series, and I've grown up with it. Looking back on these books in hindsight, I can appreciate how Brust's Trotskyist politics infuse the story, creating a constant undercurrent of class struggle in the otherwise familiar fantasy setting (it is said that only Marxist fantasy writers get the ratio of vassals to lords even remotely right), to say nothing of Brust's musical obsessions, his incredible gifts as a chef, and his love of Hungarian mythology.''
''Brust was [[Roger Zelazny]]'s protegé, but he's surpassed Zelazny's work many times over. Nineteen books are planned in this series, and I cannot wait to find out how it ends.''
|[[Cory Doctorow]], February 11, 2020}}
{{quote|''No matter how [[Lord of the Rings|subtle the wizard]], [[Mundane Solution|a knife between the shoulder blades]] will seriously cramp his style.''|'''Vlad Taltos''', ''Teckla''}}
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The ''Khaavren Romances'' series follows the swashbuckling adventures of four Dragaeren heroes. It is a deliberate [[Homage]] to ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'', told by a historian narrator who writes in a loving style-parody of [[Alexandre Dumas]]' [[Purple Prose]]. The plot closely follows the ''Musketeers'' series, including the same number and structure of books. The series takes place several hundred years before the Vlad books, though due to the long-lived nature of Dragaerans, there are a number of cross-over characters between the two series.
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* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: The bulk of ''Dragon'' is basically a war movie, and it features a quite deep discussion between Vlad and [[The Squadette|Virt]] on the philosophy of war.
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