Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
by Brust, Steven
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cowboy Fengs Space Bar and Grille serves the best matzoh ball soup in the Galaxy, and hires some of the best musicians youll ever hear. Its a great place to visit, but it tends to move around just one step ahead of whatever mysterious conspiracy is reducing whole worlds to radioactive ash. And Cowboy Feng's may be humanity's last hope for survival. 224 pages. Brust's dynamic, inventive style makes this time-hopping, intergalactic thriller a better book than its plot initially suggests. 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. An unlikely group of heroes goes to work to foil the madman's apocalyptic plans. These white knights double as the house band at Feng's, a bar and grill that features Jewish cooking, a dance floor and--when it takes a direct hit from an atomic warhead--a neat little trick enabling travel through time and space. 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. Brust's fantasy landscape seems truer than the backdrops of many realistic novels. - Publisher's Weekly. Stamp on top gilt edge. Some rubbing on bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges..
Synopsis
Steven Brust is the author of numerous fantasy novels, including Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla , and Orca . He lives in Minneapolis.
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- Title
- Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
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- Brust, Steven
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- Paperback
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 1990
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- FICTION FANTASY GENERAL SCIENCE 044111816X PAPERBACKS
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