The Gypsy

Steven Brust (born November 23, 1955, in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for the Vlad Taltos series, which began with Jhereg in 1983, and for the related Khaavren Romances, both set in the world of Dragaera. His other books include Brokedown Palace, To Reign in Hell and Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille, and he co-wrote Freedom & Necessity with Emma Bull and The Incrementalists with Skyler White. He worked as a syst...

Robin Hobb is the principal pen name of American fantasy author Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, born in 1952 in California. She spent her childhood from around age ten in Fairbanks, Alaska, and that rural Pacific Northwest and Alaskan upbringing informs much of her work. She published her first novel at thirty while working as a waitress and raising four children, her husband often away at sea as a commercial fisherman. From the early 1980s she wrote as Megan Lindholm, producing more grounded, o...