ABOUT THE AUTHOR

What would you like to know about me, assuming that you care? My full name is Steven Karl Zoltán Brust. I was born in 1955, so I’m forty-two at the time of this writing, and I have a big bald spot which I cover up with a hat, but I was wearing the hat before I developed the bald spot so it doesn’t really count. I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, except that I spent this last winter in Arizona, and if you don’t know why, you haven’t spent a winter in Minnesota.

I play drums, guitar, banjo, and Middle Eastern percussion, and I’ve written some songs, and I have produced a solo record called A Rose for Iconoclastes; if you want information on the record you can get it by sending E-mail to UncleHugo@aol.com, and if you don’t understand the title you need to read more Roger Zelazny.

In addition to the abovementioned Zelazny, my heroes are: Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Leon Trotsky, Dorothy Parker, Mickey Hart, and Mike Caro. If you don’t recognize one or more of these names, it doesn’t make you a bad person.

I have a Strapping Son named Corwin and three Charming Daughters named Aliera, Carolyn, and Toni. I live with my Lovely Associate, Liz Cooper, in a beautiful house in a crummy neighborhood. I have a dog named Miska and a double-yellow-headed Amazon parrot named John Henry Holliday, and if you don’t know his nickname you should see Val Kilmer in Tombstone.

Liz has a cat named Rogue and an African Grey parrot named Loiosh, and if you don’t know where the name “Loiosh” comes from, why are you even reading this bio?

My favorite games are Texas Hold ’Em and Stud hi-lo/8. If you don’t know what those are, I’d be glad to teach you.

Steven Brust

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

February 1998