Synopses & Reviews
Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic. Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake. The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gypsy's broken memories stand between Stepovich's beloved city and the Lady's dark designs. Part crime novel, part magic, Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm's The Gypsy is "a powerful and memorable fantasy" (Publishers Weekly).
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"Enthralling."(Publishers Weekly)
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"A spirit of righteous mysticism makes The Gypsy a compelling read." New York Review of Science Fiction
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"Fantasy, yes, but it breathes a spirit congenial to the SF reader too...every science fiction reader who dreams of long light years passing, strange peoples, wild adventure. Brust and Lindholm have given SF its gypsy god." Analog
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"Enthralling." Publishers Weekly
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"This combination fantasy and police procedural (Wambaugh on acid) is several cuts above the troll-and-unicorn dreck that floods the genre."
--Booklist (starred review) on The Gypsy
"Enthralling."
--Publishers Weekly on The Gypsy
"Fantasy, yes, but it breathes a spirit congenial to the SF reader too...every science fiction reader who dreams of long light years passing, strange peoples, wild adventure. Brust and Lindholm have given SF its gypsy god."
--Analog on The Gypsy
"A spirit of righteous mysticism makes The Gypsy a compelling read."
--New York Review of Science Fiction
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"This combination fantasy and police procedural (Wambaugh on acid) is several cuts above the troll-and-unicorn dreck that floods the genre." Booklist
Synopsis
Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic.
Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake.
The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gypsy's broken memories stand between Stepovich's beloved city and the Lady's dark designs.
Part crime novel, part magic, Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm's The Gypsy is "a powerful and memorable fantasy" (Publishers Weekly).
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Back in print: a stylish fantasy thriller from two bestselling masters of the form
Synopsis
Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic. Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake. The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gypsy's broken memories stand between Stepovich's beloved city and the Lady's dark designs. Part crime novel, part magic, Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm's The Gypsy is "a powerful and memorable fantasy" (Publishers Weekly).
About the Author
Steven Brust is the author of the bestselling Vlad Taltos series (including
Dragon and
Issola) and such other fantasy novels as
The Phoenix Guards and
To Reign in Hell.
Megan Lindholm, writing as "Robin Hobb," is the author of many bestselling fantasy novels including Assassin's Apprentice and the recent Fool's Fate.