abcmm.att.net wrote on Fri, 17 Sep 2004 >I know if I ever talked to him I would like to find out more >about why his more recent works have been told from the >perspective of a historian. I have not heard or read much >about that shift and it has always kind of peaked my interest. Joshua Kronengold wrote in response on Fri, 17 Sep 2004 >Er..they're a concious and deliberate pastiche. >As, in some ways, are the Vlad books. abcmm.att.net wrote in response on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 >hmmmm...... >Nope! Still Curious.... Hi, I had to look up pastiche again. "a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work". AOL dictionary. See Steven Brust's explanation under The Phoenix Guards at http://www.dreamcafe.com/books.html Phoenix Guards was written in 1991 and Five Hundred Years was written in 1994. An additional topic you could discuss with Steven Brust is to have him tell the story of how he got the honor of writing the Foreword and Afterword to a translation of The Three Musketeers and why he likes that translation above others. Joshua, I am wondering ("Some Reflect, Others Wonder" The Phoenix Guards Chapter 18.) what ways you think the Vlad books imitate the style of a previous work? Or is there another definition of the word? Or another meaning to your sentence >As, in some ways, are the Vlad books. Bye, Linda G.