''The Gypsy'' is a 1992 urban

fantasy novel Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fa ...

written by

Megan Lindholm Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952), known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. As Hobb, she is best known for her fantasy novels set in the ''Realm of the Elderlings'', w ...

and

Steven Brust Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans livi ...

. It blends elements of Hungarian folk tales with a modern-day

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. The book contains many

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to songs that were later recorded by Minnesota Celtic-punk band

Boiled in Lead Boiled in Lead is a rock/world-music band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founded in 1983. Tim Walters of ''MusicHound Folk'' called the group "the most important folk-rock band to appear since the 1970s." Influential record producer and mu ...

for their album ''

Songs from The Gypsy ''Songs From the Gypsy'' is the sixth album by Minneapolis Celtic rock band Boiled in Lead, and its second with lead singer/guitarist Adam Stemple. It is a song cycle based on a Hungarian folk tale, written largely by Stemple and his Cats Laugh ...

''.

Editions and translations

The first edition was a

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issued by

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in July 1992. At least two

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editions have been issued since: a mass-market paperback by

in July 1993 and a trade paperback edition by Orb Books in April 2005. A French translation, ''La nuit du prédateur'', was published by Mnémos in April 2006.

''Songs from The Gypsy''

''Songs from The Gypsy'' is an album by

. The songs were later incorporated into the novel ''The Gypsy'', despite the date of the recording. The album was released on June 21, 1995, in a special enhanced CD format that included the whole text of the book and extra features such as sound clips.

Track listing

# Raven, Owl, and I (3:17) # Leanan Sidhe (3:48) # Hide My Track (4:04) # No Passenger (1:59) # Back In Town (3:38) # Ugros (Springtime) (6:17) # The Gypsy (8:08) # Blackened Page (4:56) # The Fair Lady (3:05) # Red Lights and Neon (4:13)

External links

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