Aahz decides to continue Skeeve’s training as a wizard as together they attempt to thwart the evil Isstvan from taking over Skeeve’s homeworld of Klah with ample doses of humor along the way. He still retains his knowledge of how to do magic. Aahz has lost his magic due to being sprinkled with joke powder during a summoning ritual and without Garkin, has little chance of regaining his powers. The boy is taken under the wing of Garkin’s “demon”, the reptilian being from the dimension of Perv. Asprin was a prolific author with two famous series, the Myth Series and the Phule Company Series in addition the Thieves World Anthologies and many stand alone novels.Īnother Fine Myth begins as Skeeve, a young thief turned sorcerer’s apprentice, is reluctantly thrust into a world of assassins, demons and dimensional hopping when his master, the wizard Garkin, is murdered. He also published the first novel in his fantasy Myth Series that would continue to gain more additions until his death in 2008. It was the first known project of this type to be done. He began work as an editor by creating and editing Thieves World, an anthology of stories based on a single world. The late seventies proved to be his launch point as a writer. In 1976, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for The Capture, a cartoon slide show written by Robert Asprin and drawn by Phil Foglio. Asprin was married twice and is survived by two children. Robert Asprin was a resident of Chicago, a veteran of the United States Army and extremely active in science fiction fandom.
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