To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

The books are presented as historical novels written by Paarfi of Roundwood a Dragaeran roughly contemporary with Vlad. Some of these approaches are more purely stylistic and have minor effects on the actual story-telling; some are profound and involve the point of view of characters whom the reader never expected to get to know so well. "
The 1995 Boiled in Lead enhanced CD Songs from the Gypsy featured songs by Brust and Adam Stemple as well as the full text of the novel The Gypsy.

These include Emma Bull's and Will Shetterly's Liavek Robert Asprin's Thieves' World Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Terri Windling's Borderland Series. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies which included Emma Bull Pamela Dean Will Shetterly Nate Bucklin Kara Dalkey and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent.