Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 044111816X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 550 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is a great place to visit, but it tends to move around a bit. And Cowboy Feng's may be humanity's last hope for survival. Original.. From Earth to the Moon to Mars to another solar system, it is always just one step ahead of whatever mysterious conspiracy is reducing whole worlds to radioactive ash
He lives in Minneapolis.. Steven Brust is the author of numerous fantasy novels, including Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, and Orca
"Great Book - it's all about the characters" according to David Calkins. All good books are based on characters. No matter how good or bad the plot, if the characters aren't well developed and interesting, the book sucks. This book has great characters, fairly archetypal, but still well rounded and interesting.As with all Brust books, this a mystery in the Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes style. Whether set in a fantas. C. Erwinloomis said Space and Time and Matzo ball soup. This book just blew me away. When I read it i had no idea that the same author who wrote the Vlad Taltos series that I loved had anything to do with this book. Each time I read it I find myself being drawn further into the sad, exciting, and beautiful mind of our hero, Cowboy Feng not to give anything away. When I say hero, i mean it with a capital . "An unexpectedly sweet and moving story." according to Peter D. Tillman. An unexpectedly sweet and moving examination of folk-music, young love, life on the road, and the Meaning of Life inside a standard, rather pro-forma sci-fi time-travel adventure. I liked it quite a bit. FENG is a pleasant and entertaining way to pass a few hours. "B+"Note that the very cool cover (by James Gurney) is a bit misleading as to the actu
The often poignant musical allusions as well as the deftly sketched cronies at Feng's contribute to the book's surprisingly subtle depth of feeling. . For all the frills and furbelows--and there are many, each more bizarre than the next--the central conflict is humdrum: a fiendish paranoiac called the Physician decides to destroy his native planet in order to stop the spread of a deadly illness called Hags disease. Brust's fantasy landscape seems truer than the backdrops of many realistic novels. From Publishers Weekly Brust's ( Jhereg ) dynamic, inventive style makes this time-hopping, intergalactic thriller a better book than its plot initially suggests. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. An unlikely group of