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Era leads Kyptan and Cesky on a discussion about the 3rd book in the Vlad Taltos series Teckla. Music: Galactic Damages by Jingle Punks Considering supporting The Legendarium on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/legendarium Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thelegendarium/ Discord: https://discord.gg/FNcpuuA Twitter: @GreenteamPod
Era, Cesky and Kyptan talk about Yendi the 2nd book in the Vlad Taltos series. Music: Galactic Damages by Jingle Punks Considering supporting The Legendarium on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/legendarium Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thelegendarium/ Discord: https://discord.gg/FNcpuuA Twitter: @GreenteamPod
Era leads Kyptan and Cesky through the 1st book of the Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust. Considering supporting The Legendarium on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/legendarium Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thelegendarium/ Discord: https://discord.gg/FNcpuuA Twitter: @GreenteamPod
LINKS: Judd's Links | https://allmylinks.com/judd-karlman Daydreaming about Dragons Merch | https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/collections/daydreaming-about-dragons | Dictionary of Mu | https://pakasthreadgames.bigcartel.com/product/the-dictionary-of-mu Actual Play on Twitch | https://www.twitch.tv/actualplay Actual Play on Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/@ActualPlay Vlad Taltos | https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/steven-brust/vlad-taltos/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons/support
D. T. Kane reads chapters 5 and 6 of his epic fantasy fiction novel, The Acktus Trials, and discusses the chapter with his audience. http://dtkane.comThe Acktus Trials, an epic fantasy novel, available now: https://dtkane.com/books/the-acktus-trials/Map of Oration: https://dtkane.com/resources/map-of-oration/ What I'm reading this week: Vlad Taltos, The Book of Jhereg, By Steven Brust (Audio: https://amzn.to/3sTCZCz eBook: https://amzn.to/3sv3q10) Silence of … Continue reading D. T. Kane's Epic Fantasy Book Club, The Acktus Trials, Chapters 5 and 6-Episode 5 →
In this convervsation, Steven Brust (@StevenBrust on twitter) and I speak about writing—how plot is like a magic trick—how the the imagination and blind luck builds worlds, and then we speak about his parent's involvement in Minneapolis unionization politics over the course of the 20th century. Steven has so, so many books. I suggest the Vlad Taltos series, but a couple great one-offs are Agyar and Brokedown Palace. Here's a link to his amazon page: https://amzn.to/3BamRza Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Read my writing: http://bit.ly/aliastodream https://www.patreon.com/benjaminboyce --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/calmversations/message
A regular nice roundtable! In the first part this week's episode, Mark leads an examination of how fonts can support gameplay, worldbuilding, and immersion. In the second half, Stephen makes us think—really think—about the benefits of "janky" gameplay. Mark shares some font history facts, Stephen starts his manifesto, and Ellen takes on the case. Mark's new keyboard Chel Wong's charity album Press Reset (new gamedev book) - Jason Schreier Where to Start with Vlad Taltos (the book series that Ellen mentioned) - Stephen Brust, Tor Books Fonts 0:09:37 Mark LaCroix Misc. History and Evolution of Typography - Konstantin Kirilov; Nikolay Petroussenko, Font Fabric The history of fonts - Prepressure Popular Standards - International Organization for Standardization Mini Metro Destiny Night in the Woods VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Jank 0:39:52 Stephen McGregor Game Design Balan Wonderworld is a strange game of furry musicality - Michael McWhertor, Polygon Balan Wonderland gameplay video - Kinda Funny Gamescast, YouTube Bullet Witch on Steam Goat Simulator Human Fall Flat on Steam L.O.V.E.R.S in a Dangerous Spacetime INSIDE Overcooked
A regular nice roundtable! In the first part this week's episode, Mark leads an examination of how fonts can support gameplay, worldbuilding, and immersion. In the second half, Stephen makes us think—really think—about the benefits of "janky" gameplay. Mark shares some font history facts, Stephen starts his manifesto, and Ellen takes on the case.Mark's new keyboardChel Wong's charity albumPress Reset (new gamedev book) - Jason SchreierWhere to Start with Vlad Taltos (the book series that Ellen mentioned) - Stephen Brust, Tor Books Fonts 0:09:37 Mark LaCroixMisc.History and Evolution of Typography - Konstantin Kirilov; Nikolay Petroussenko, Font FabricThe history of fonts - PrepressurePopular Standards - International Organization for StandardizationMini MetroDestinyNight in the WoodsVA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Jank 0:39:52 Stephen McGregorGame DesignBalan Wonderworld is a strange game of furry musicality - Michael McWhertor, PolygonBalan Wonderland gameplay video - Kinda Funny Gamescast, YouTubeBullet Witch on SteamGoat SimulatorHuman Fall Flat on SteamL.O.V.E.R.S in a Dangerous SpacetimeINSIDEOvercooked
Twitter: @E_A_N_podcast @ICntBlvIJndTwtr - Kris Cox @ThickJuicyDrums - Charlie Hickmott Facebook: @EANPodcastPDX This weeks guest is NY Times best selling author, Steven Brust! Writer of the Vlad Taltos series. (Go find it. Like, B&N sells his stuff. We're also including a link to Steven Brust's personal website down below if you'd rather order it from him directly) If you've ever wanted to see what it looks like when finally confronted with your favorite author, this episode is for you! We ask about the origins of the story, how his artistic process works, how he got started... Kris fanboyed pretty hard here, and it's great. Dreamcafe.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyandnot/support
@StevenBrust is my favorite author, at least who's alive and writing fantasy. Top recommendation: https://adbl.co/2PWz3wB His blog: http://dreamcafe.com I also particularly enjoy his Vlad Taltos series, while the Khaavren Romances awoke me to the possibilities of English when I was a wee high school bookworm. He's running a writing conference this summer in Minneapolis: https://www.narrativity.fun/ Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Two guests this week! First is Jenna Glass, author of The Women's War, from Del Rey available on 3/5/19.Our second guest is Steven Brust, author of the Vlad Taltos series and who'll be a guest at Coastcon this weekend in Biloxi.Top Nerd News coveres Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, Suicide Squad, and more. Skungy's Pick of the week is Anthem.This Week in Geek History and Celebrity birthdays returns next week.
Steven Brust is a popular science fiction author with 31 novels to his credit. He’s known for the Vlad Taltos series as well as the Khaavren romances. He’s also a musician: drummer, guitarist and banjo player, and he has a solo record out, A Rose For Iconoclastes. Like many writers, as we pondered on the show, he has a cat. We chatted about his early career as a computer programmer and the life-changing event that launched him into writing science fiction. Steven’s career has been filled with a fortunate series of happenstances, “luck,” both in the cover art of his novels and his choice of themes. Inspired by Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light, Steven writes what he’d love to read himself, and that has worked amazingly well. You’ll enjoy our chat about all things science fiction.
Aaron introduces us to the 15 book (so far) Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust. If you like wise-cracking, magical assassin dragons, this might be right up your alley! (Our crazy awesome background music was procured from www.hooksounds.com) ***Episode note: Please disregard Dave's overambitious email address idea... of course it was already taken. We have instead laid claim to backlistpodcast@gmail.com
Listeners may have noticed a bit of an unscheduled break recently. This was mainly due to life happening to all the Mad Writers at once aka our various lairs of Mad Writing getting melted down or exploded. As it happens, we were all going through different types of things so we thought we would talk about them, just in case it also proved useful to our listeners.Notable notesFXXK WRITING: Work and endurance in the wake of an emotional bruise by Jason Ridler Sometimes Writers Block is really Depression by Mary Robinette Kowal Depression lies by Jenny Lawson Life on 10,000 Words a Day: How I’m Hacking My Writing Process by Kameron Hurley Bullet journalRecommended reading Tim's recommendation: Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky Jay's recommendation: Vlad Taltos series (beginning with Jhereg) by Steven Brüst Nina's recommendation: Bookburners Season 1 by Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, Brian Francis Slattery
Welcome to the Startup Geometry podcast, where we talk to the creators, innovators and explorers who make the world what it is. In this episode, I talk with Steven Brust, author of the Vlad Taltos/Dragaera novels. We talk about his writing process, important influences and future plans. I've been a huge fan of Steven's, ever since his first novel, Jhereg, introduced us to wisecracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his sidekick Loiosh back in 1983. His latest books are Hawk and The Incrementalists. You'll notice that I immediately mispronounce his last name (which is pronounced BROOST, though spelled BRUST), despite having pasted a note with the phonetic spelling of his name to the microphone I was using at the time. Podcasting is HARD. This podcast can be found on iTunes and Stitcher, or accessed directly below. Show links: Dreamcafe, Steven Brust's homepage His Twitter account: @stevenbrust At the Tor.com site: An excerpt from Hawk An excerpt from The Incrementalists An interview with Jo Walton about the Dragaera books A short story set on Dragaera Fritz Leiber Michael Moorcock Roger Zelazny Skyler White Emma Bull The Isaiah Berlin quote I referenced with regard to Incrementalist politics was in an interview with him which was excerpted in The 50 Year Argument, a documentary on the New York Review of Books, where I first saw and heard it. Similar sentiments could be found elsewhere in his work, for example in Crooked Timber, a collection of his essays and lectures.
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, humanlike “Dragaerans.” He is a guest of honor for Convolution 2012. Our first all-Stev/phen podcast!