FRIEDA2133 at aol.com writes: >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. >I had to look up pastiche again. "a literary, artistic, musical, >or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work". >AOL dictionary. Right. >Phoenix Guards was written in 1991 and Five Hundred Years was >written in 1994. IOW, there is no "recent/older" work split. Just two different series in the same universe. >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. I'd probably ask him about drumming and music, but maybe that's just me. >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? Google for Taltos and Chandler. Unlike the Guards books, they do not, to my knowledge, use specific scenes, story elements, and themes from a previous work, but they are very much a pastiche of Chandler language-wise. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme@(io.com, labcats.org)) |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^-- "Get your mind right and you can make a stick /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\ your wand and the sky your hat and a puddle |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\ your magic..." -- Granny Weatherwax '---''(_/--' (_/-'