32-715: This article is about the given name and surname. For the 2003 horror film, see Vlad (film) . Vlad is a Romanian male given name. It is more commonly a nativized hypocorism of Vladislav and can also be used as a surname. Alternately, it may be a hypocoristic form of the Slavic name Vladimir (though incorrect stricto sensu , the normative nickname being Vova ). It may refer to: Given name [ edit ] People [ edit ] Vlad I of Wallachia ( fl. 1394–1397 ), voivode (prince) of Wallachia Vlad II Dracul (before 1395 – 1448), voivode of Wallachia Vlad
64-551: A motif in all of Brust's novels. In the Dragaeran books, her name is Devera. She is the (future) daughter of another character and seems to be able to appear anywhere in time and space. In Brust's non-Dragaeran books her appearances are usually brief and not always obvious. Brust is a singer-songwriter and drummer who has recorded a solo album, and who has played in the Minneapolis-based folk rock band Cats Laughing , and with
96-401: A DVD by the same title with documentary concert footage. A Rose for Iconoclastes , a folk (or folk pop ) album released in 1993, is Brust's only solo album. The title is a reference to " A Rose for Ecclesiastes ", a short story by Brust's literary hero and mentor Roger Zelazny . Twelve of the fourteen songs were written or co-written by Brust. The album was produced by Adam Stemple ,
128-464: A different viewpoint character in each of its chapters; and the third section is narrated by Paarfi in the style of the earlier Khaavren Romances , with Khaavren as the viewpoint character and interacting with Vlad. Most of Brust's short stories are set in shared universes . 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 . Brust
160-477: A failure of multimedia integration. As an audio CD, the disc serves up ten songs, ranging from acoustic trad to bluesy rockers, that ironically form a less cohesive whole than previous Boiled in Lead releases. The better numbers (like the title track) incorporate Celtic rock with Hungarian, Middle Eastern, and other interesting worldbeat influences." Parisien found the album's integration with the novel unsuccessful, in that
192-482: A fellow fantasy writer and member of Cats Laughing. The 1995 enhanced CD Songs from The Gypsy , by the band Boiled in Lead , featured songs written by Brust and Adam Stemple , as well as the full text of Brust's novel The Gypsy . AllMusic reviewer Steven McDonald called Songs from The Gypsy "an example of Brust's serious songwriting working well." Conversely, a critical review by AllMusic 's Roch Parisien emphasized that " Songs from The Gypsy represents
224-436: A lot of cloaks and rapiers in 'em, 'cause that's cool. Guys who like military hardware, who think advanced military hardware is cool, are not gonna jump all over my books, because they have other ideas about what's cool. Brust elaborated, "The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff." The character Devera, usually a cute brown-eyed girl of about nine, appears as
256-654: A member of Cats Laughing . Brust also co-wrote songs on two albums recorded in the mid-1990s by the band Boiled in Lead . The Vlad Taltos series, written as high fantasy with a science fiction underpinning, is set on a planet called Dragaera. The events of the series take place in an Empire mostly inhabited and ruled by the Dragaerans, a genetically engineered humanoid species, having characteristics such as greatly extended lifespans and heights averaging about seven feet. Referred to as " elfs " by some humans, they refer to themselves as "human". The Dragaeran Empire controls
288-466: A region that is "enclouded" by a perpetual overcast that blocks the sun from view. Vlad Taltos is one of the human minority (known by Dragaerans as "Easterners"), which exists as a lower class in the Empire. Vlad also practices the human art of witchcraft; " táltos " is Hungarian for a kind of supernatural person in folklore. Though human, he is a citizen of the Empire because his social-climbing father bought
320-437: A title in one of the less reputable of the 17 Dragaeran Great Houses. The only Great House that sells memberships this way is, not coincidentally, also the one that maintains a criminal organization. Vlad proves surprisingly successful in this organization. Despite being a human and a criminal, he has a number of high-ranking Dragaeran friends and often gets caught up in important events. Brust has written 17 published novels in
352-511: Is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013) and its sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017), with co-author Skyler White . As a drummer and singer-songwriter, Brust has recorded one solo album and two albums as
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#1732855127098384-548: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Vlad (film) Vlad is a 2003 American horror film directed by Michael D. Sellers and starring Francesco Quinn and Billy Zane . It is based on the life of Vlad Dracula , the Wallachian ruler. The film received generally negative reviews. This article about a 2000s horror film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vlad Taltos Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955)
416-453: Is explicitly based on Dumas', though with a dialogue style that is, at times, based on Tom Stoppard 's wordgames in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (according to Pamela Dean's introduction to Five Hundred Years After ). The Baron of Magister Valley , an additional Paarfi novel, is modeled after Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo . The two series are finally brought together in
448-544: The Khaavren Romances , set centuries before Vlad's time. Since Dragaerans live for thousands of years, many characters appear in both series. It is partly an homage to Alexandre Dumas père 's novels about The Three Musketeers , and is five volumes long, following the pattern of Dumas' series. The books are presented as historical novels written by Paarfi of Roundwood, a Dragaeran roughly contemporary with Vlad. Paarfi's old-fashioned, elaborate, and highly verbose writing
480-491: The Albany Free Traders, and Morrigan. Brust also co-wrote two songs on the 1994 album Antler Dance by the band Boiled in Lead (BiL), as well as many of the songs on BiL's 1995 multimedia CD Songs from The Gypsy . Cats Laughing released two albums with Brust as the drummer, in 1988 and 1990. Brust also contributed as a songwriter and vocalist. The 1990 album Another Way to Travel features cover art that depicts
512-760: The Fantasy & Science Fiction category. Freedom and Necessity was a 1998 finalist for the same category, while The Phoenix Guards was a finalist in 1992. Brust discovered in August 2006 that he had made the New York Times extended bestseller list at number 30 with Dzur . He mentioned his ambivalence on this subject online. SciFi Wire posted an interview with Brust after Dzur came out. Brust's novels have been translated into numerous languages, including Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. There are two series set in
544-475: The House of Usherette) and PBS Liavek . Brust's short story "When The Bow Breaks" was nominated for the 1998 Nebula Award . Five Hundred Years After was nominated for the 1995 Locus Poll Award (Best Fantasy Novel). Other novels nominated for various Locus Poll Awards were Brokedown Palace, The Gypsy, Agyar, and Freedom & Necessity. Dragon was a finalist for the 1999 Minnesota Book Awards in
576-1214: The Impaler (1428/31 – 1476/77), voivode of Wallachia as Vlad III, inspiration for the character Count Dracula Vlad Călugărul (before 1425? – 1495), voivode of Wallachia as Vlad IV, half-brother of Vlad the Impaler Vlad cel Tânăr (1494–1512), voivode of Wallachia as Vlad V Vlad VI Înecatul (c. 1508 – 1532), voivode of Wallachia Vlad Vintilă de la Slatina (died 1535), voivode of Wallachia as Vlad VII Vlad Achim (born 1989), Romanian footballer Vlad Bădălicescu (born 1988), Romanian rugby union footballer Vlad Bujor (born 1989), Romanian footballer Vlad Chiricheș (born 1989), Romanian footballer Vlad Danale (born 1998), Romanian footballer Vlad Dragomir (born 1999), Romanian footballer Vlad Filat (born 1969), Moldovan businessman and politician, former Prime Minister of Moldova Vlad Goian (born 1970), Moldovan football manager and former player Vladimir Guerrero (born 1975), Dominican retired Major League Baseball player Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (born 1999), Canadian Major League Baseball player, son of
608-1462: The Nickelodeon TV series Danny Phantom Vlad Taltos , in Steven Brust's Dragaera novels Vlad Vladikoff , in the Dr. Seuss children's books Vlad, in the Ender's Game series Vlad Glebov, in the Grand Theft Auto IV video game Vlad, in the Hack/Slash comic series Vlad Dracula, in the CBBC show Young Dracula Stage name [ edit ] Vlad (musician) , born Volodymyr DeBriansky in 1972, Ukrainian-born American guitarist, composer, songwriter and music producer Vlad Stashevsky , Russian pop singer Vladislav Stanislavovich Tverdohlebov (born 1974) Surname [ edit ] Alexandru Vlad (born 1989), Romanian footballer Andrei Vlad (born 1999), Romanian football goalkeeper Dan Vlad (born 1983), Romanian rugby union player Marcel Vlad (born 1948), Romanian wrestler Marina Marta Vlad (born 1949), Romanian composer Nicu Vlad (born 1963), Romanian weightlifter Roman Vlad (1919–2013), Italian composer, pianist and musicologist [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
640-716: The Workers League, the predecessor to the Socialist Equality Party , and he continues to identify as a " Trotskyist sympathizer," linking to the SEP-affiliated World Socialist Web Site on his personal website. He endorsed the SEP's presidential candidates in the 2016 US elections. In contrast to contemporary academic studies in literature, Brust has put forward what he called "The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature": All literature consists of whatever
672-975: The above Vlad Hagiu , (born 1963), Romanian water polo coach Vlad Ioviță (1935–1983), Moldovan writer Vlad Ivanov (born 1969), Romanian actor Vlado Kreslin (born 1953), Slovene singer, songwriter and musician Vlad Lyubovny (born 1973), commonly known as DJ Vlad, Ukrainian-born American interviewer, journalist and director Vlad Miriță (born 1981), Romanian singer Vlad Moldoveanu (born 1988), Romanian basketball player Vlad Morar (born 1993), Romanian footballer Vlad Munteanu (born 1981), Romanian retired footballer Vlad Muțiu (born 1995), Romanian football goalkeeper Vlad Nistor (rugby union) (born 1994), Romanian rugby union player Vlad Olteanu (born 1996), Romanian footballer Vlad Rusu (born 1990), Romanian footballer Vlad Sokolovskiy (born 1991), Russian singer Vlad Topalov (born 1985), Russian singer, dancer and actor Fictional characters [ edit ] Vlad Plasmius , in
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#1732855127098704-614: The band members and a vehicle known as the Catmobile, the band vehicle for Cats Laughing. The car, owned by Brust, was a Cadillac ambulance, painted yellow, light blue, and dark blue, with murals. On April 3, 2015, Brust performed as part of Cats Laughing in a reunion concert at the Minicon 50 science fiction convention in Bloomington, Minnesota. In March 2016, Cats Laughing released a double CD of their 2015 reunion, A Long Time Gone , as well as
736-399: The novel's 17 chapters were presented as "scrollable text only, which also intersperse some 80 song lyric excerpts that you can play from hot buttons. Annoyingly, you must flip back to the main menu index to move from one chapter to the next." Parisien concluded, "Despite Brust's engrossingly poetic, impressionist story inspired by Hungarian folk tales and revolving around three Gypsy brothers,
768-448: The project does not overcome the primary limitation of bringing literature to the computer screen, that being that the computer offers an inhospitable environment for viewing literature-length text." The review, written in 1995, predated a wave of popular e-book readers that began to emerge about ten years later. Brust has performed dramatically in several Shockwave Radio Theater productions, notably Closing Ceremonies (aka The Fall of
800-779: The reader never expected to get to know so well. Further, as the writing of the Taltos novels has spanned over four decades, they have been influenced by events in Brust's own life. A fascination with the Mafia ;– subsequently brought into a somewhat shocking perspective by the murder of a friend – profoundly influenced his storylines, as did the breakup of his marriage. The events and arguments of his books, especially Teckla , are acknowledged by Brust to be influenced by his lifelong interest in Marxist theory and practice. Brust's parents were activists in
832-472: The same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vlad&oldid=1259647075 " Categories : Given names Surnames Romanian masculine given names Masculine given names Hypocorisms Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
864-660: The series, which is proposed to run to nineteen novels – one named for each of the Great Houses, one named for Vlad himself ( Taltos ), and a final novel which Brust has said will be titled The Final Contract . The first three novels resemble private-eye detective stories , perhaps the closest being Robert B. Parker 's Spenser series . The later novels are more varied than the first three. Though they read like fantasy, there are science-fictional explanations for some things. Brust has also written another series set in Dragaera,
896-504: The thirteenth novel in the Vlad series, Tiassa , which can also be viewed as the sixth novel in the Khaavren series. Tiassa comprises what are in effect three related novellas, each told in a different style and connected by a common theme. The first section reads like the first three novels in the series, with first-person narration by Vlad but including Khaavren's son, Piro; the second section has
928-481: The world of Dragaera, the Khaavren Romances and the Vlad Taltos novels. They are set in different periods in the world, but some characters are common to both series. A series of Dragaeran historical romances , which take place centuries earlier than the Vlad Taltos novels, was written in the narrative voice of Paarfi of Roundwood, a Dragaeran historian. Paarfi describes these novels as works of history written for
960-411: The writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. And that works all the way from the external trappings to the level of metaphor, subtext, and the way one uses words. In other words, I happen not to think that full-plate armor and great big honking greatswords are cool. I don't like 'em. I like cloaks and rapiers. So I write stories with
992-420: The writing of Roger Zelazny . There is a certain amount of variation in the writing style amongst the Taltos novels, as well as between Brust's various series. Brust uses a different narrative approach in almost every novel in the Taltos series. 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
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1024-467: Was a founding member of a Minnesota-based writers' group called The Scribblies , which included Emma Bull , Pamela Dean , Will Shetterly , Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey , and Patricia Wrede . He also was a founding member of the Pre-Joycean Fellowship . He has rejected a distinction between science fiction and fantasy, stating that no belief in such a distinction can withstand an encounter with
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