The Baron of Magister Valley

{{short description|2020 novel in the Khaavren Romances series by Steven Brust}}

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| author = Steven Brust

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| country = United States

| language = English

| series = The Khaavren Romances

| genre = Fantasy

| publisher = Tor Books

| release_date = July 28, 2020

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| isbn = 978-1-250-31146-7

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The Baron of Magister Valley is a fantasy novel by American writer Steven Brust, set in the fictional world of Dragaera and part of the Khaavren Romances.{{cite book|author=Steven Brust|title=The Baron of Magister Valley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fdx_DwAAQBAJ|date=28 July 2020|publisher=Tom Doherty Associates|isbn=978-1-250-31146-7}} Like the other books in that series, the novel is heavily influenced by the d'Artagnan Romances written by Alexandre Dumas, and is written by Brust in the voice and persona of a Dragaeran novelist, Paarfi of Roundwood, whose style is a tongue-in-cheek parody of Dumas, matching both his swashbuckling sense of adventure and his penchant for tangents and longwindedness.{{cite web |url=https://www.sfsite.com/05b/pd152.htm |title=Review: The Paths of the Dead |last= Speer |first=Cindy Lynn |date=2003 |website=SF Site |access-date=2020-08-03}}{{cite web |url=https://www.tor.com/2009/11/27/i-have-been-asjking-for-nothing-else-for-an-hour-steven-brusts-lemgthe-phoenix-guardslemg/ |title=I have been asking for nothing else for an hour: Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards |last=Walton |first=Jo |date=2009-11-27 |website=Tor.com |access-date=2020-07-25}}

The Khaavren Romances books have all used Dumas novels (particularly the Three Musketeers series) as their chief inspiration, recasting the plots of those novels to fit within Brust's established world of Dragaera.{{cite web | last = Tilendis | first = Robert M. | title = Steven Brust's The Khaavren Romances | website = Green Man Review | date = 2014-12-23 | url = http://thegreenmanreview.com/books/steven-brust-the-khaavren-romances/ | access-date = 2020-08-03 }} The Baron of Magister Valley follows suit, using The Count of Monte Cristo as a starting point.{{cite web |url=https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/07/there-are-so-many-new-sci-fi-and-fantasy-books-coming-out-in-july-2/ |title=There Are So Many New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Coming Out in July |last=Eddy |first=Cheryl |date=2020-07-01 |website=Gizmodo |access-date=2020-08-03}}