Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille by Steven Brust

[james_davis_nicoll]

Cowboy Feng’s offers good food, excellent music, and, oh yes, refuge from the end of the world. Or rather, from the ends of several worlds.

Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille by Steven Brust

Comments

[ba_munronoe]

Is that a plague-type doctor (with a beaked mask) in the upper right corner?

It's got a fancy back cover too: https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Fengs-Space-Bar-Grille/dp/0765306646

I miss SF with elaborate book covers.

[nocowardsoul]

A dud, but one of the two-page flashbacks is one of my favorite fictional depictions of bad parenting.

[elusis]

I read this hoping it would be similar to the Callahan's books.

It was not.

[patrick_morris_miller]

For those not versed in the culture of the era: "Hags" (as well as the pancakes and flounder gag) is taken from a sick joke wherein it stands for "herpes + AIDS + gonorrhea + syphilis". Good fun, laughs are had by all.

[heuradys]

Every character is based on or bears a physical resemblance to one of his friends at the time, so it's pretty much an Easter basket if you know who's who.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading this, I couldn't recap the plot to save my life. I remember thinking I wanted to enjoy this book a lot more than I actually did.

Teka Lynn

[jbwoodford]

I remember kind-of liking this when I first read it; not sure how well it would hold up to a reread, though.

Looking back, this is one of several books of his (including _To Reign in Hell_, _Brokedown Palace_, _The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars_, mostly) that I see as Brust basically saying hey, the Jhereg books are a cash cow that will hopefully last me for a few decades, and that gives me the chance to mess around. Some of these efforts were more popular than others--he's gotten a lot of mileage out of writing like Dumas, e.g. It also seems to me that having seen what worked and what didn't in those more experimental novels, he's been able to do some interesting stylistic things with the later Jhereg books.