Series
Vlad Taltos
Steven Brust, Bill Scammell, Christine Ivey, Evan Jamieson, Lisa Hunt, Mark Bloom, Richard S. Meyers & Walter H. Hunt · 18 novels · 1983–2024
Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series follows the title character, an assassin and member of a socially disdained human minority living on the world of Dragaera among long-lived, sorcerously gifted non-human houses. Jhereg opens the series amid the criminal underworld Vlad works within, launching a sequence that has grown across dozens of novels tracking his shifting fortunes in Dragaeran society and politics.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(6 editions)
Map
Vlad Taltos at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s5
- 1990s4
- 2000s3
- 2010s4
- 2020s2
Shape
18 novels
8 authors
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 89% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.