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Robert Lynn Asprin

Born 28 June 1946(1946-06-28)
St. Johns, Michigan
Died 22 May 2008 (aged 61)
New Orleans, Lousiana
Occupation Fiction Author
Nationality American
Writing period 1977–2008
Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy

Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008)[1] was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his humorous MythAdventures series. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. St Johns is a city in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7485 Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The definition of a fantasy author is somewhat diffuse and a matter of opinion – Jules Verne considered H MythAdventures is the collective name for a series of humorous Fantasy novels written by Robert Lynn Asprin that are popular for their whimsical nature myriad

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Biography

Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1964 through 1965. St Johns is a city in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7485 Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. From 1965 through 1966 he served in the United States Army. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. He was married (twice) and had two children. He was active in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism under the name "Yang the Nauseating" and co-founded the Great Dark Horde in 1971. Society for Creative Anachronism (usually shortened to SCA) is a historical re-creation and Living history group founded in 1966 which The Great Dark Horde is an independent "household" (a social sub-group or quasi-fraternal organization within the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA He was also an influential member of the Dorsai Irregulars. The Dorsai Irregulars was originally an organization made up of people from Science fiction fandom.

Asprin's first novel, The Cold Cash War, an expansion of an earlier short story of the same title, was published in 1977. The Cold Cash War is a 1977 Science fiction novel by Robert Asprin.

Over the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, Lynn Abbey) the Thieves' World series of shared world anthologies, credited as the first project of its type. Lynn Abbey (born September 8, 1948) is an American author Born in Peekskill New York, she began publishing in 1979 with the novel Thieves' World is a A shared universe is a Literary technique in which several different authors create works of Fiction that share aspects such as settings or characters and that are Soon after the series hit its stride they lost control over many of the authors and the series ended in anarchy. A series of graphic novels was published in the mid-1980s, and several of the authors, notably Andrew J. Offutt, Janet Morris, and David Drake published novels about their characters. A Andrew Jefferson Offutt (born August 16, 1934 in Kentucky) is an American Science fiction and Fantasy author Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is a United States Author. David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an author of Science fiction and Fantasy literature In 2002, Lynn Abbey resurrected the series with the novel Sanctuary.

Also in 1979, Asprin began to chronicle the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz in the "MythAdventures" series. MythAdventures is the collective name for a series of humorous Fantasy novels written by Robert Lynn Asprin that are popular for their whimsical nature myriad Originally illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas, and later by Phil Foglio, the highly pun-driven books follow a "demon" magician who has lost his powers and his inexperienced human apprentice as they travel through a variety of worlds in pursuit of finding their place in life, under the guise of seeking wealth and glory. Frank Kelly Freas ( 27 August 1922 &ndash 2 January 2005) called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists" was a prolific and popular Philip "Phil" Foglio (b 1956 is a Cartoonist and Comic book artist best known for his humorous Science fiction and Fantasy work A pun (or paronomasia) is a Phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding Words for humorous or Rhetorical Some of the early "Myth" novels were later adapted as comic books by Foglio and others. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Philip "Phil" Foglio (b 1956 is a Cartoonist and Comic book artist best known for his humorous Science fiction and Fantasy work The Myth books have passed through three publishing companies over the years: Donning Starblaze, Meisha Merlin and as of 2008, Wildside Press. The Donning Company (also known as The Donning Company Publishers) is a specialty book publisher based in Virginia Beach. Meisha Merlin Publishing was an independent Publishing company founded in 1996 by Stephen Pagel Kevin Murphy and Brian Murphy Wildside Press is an independent Publishing company located in Maryland, USA.

In the 1990s, Asprin's "Phule" novels followed the humorous science-fiction exploits of a rag-tag company of the "Space Legion" and its wealthy and iconoclastic leader Willard Phule.

Due to a series of personal and financial problems, Asprin stopped writing in the 1990s. He had two books on the New York Times Bestsellers list which piqued the interest of fans and the IRS. The Unfortunately this came right at the time of an almost seven year writing drought. Eventually, these problems were somewhat resolved, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he wrote several novels in collaboration with authors Peter Heck, Jody Lynn Nye, and Linda Evans. Peter Jewell Heck (born Chestertown Maryland) is an American Science fiction and mystery Author. Jody Lynn Nye (born July 5 1957) is an American Science fiction author Linda Evans is an American Science fiction writer from Florida. As a result of the conditions of his agreement with the IRS, [2] it would receive all income earned from books for which he was credited as sole author, making it in his own best interest to reduce his role to co-author. These novels included continuations of the "Myth" series and the "Phule" series as well as works in original series.

Asprin died 22 May 2008,[3][4] in bed, where he had been reading a Terry Pratchett novel. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [5]

Partial bibliography

MythAdventures series

Omnibus editions

Duncan and Mallory series

Phule's Company series

Time Scout series

Cold Cash series

Wartorn series

Other Novels

Selected short fiction

Editor

Thieves' World series

References

  1. ^ Asprin's homepage News of his death
  2. ^ "Robert Asprin and Eric Del Carlo: No Quarter", Crescent Blues, Volume 4, Issue 5 (August 2002). Heroes in Hell is a series of Shared world Fantasy books by Janet Morris, C Merovingen Nights is a series of Shared world Science fiction books set in writer C Thieves' World is a
  3. ^ Trans World News
  4. ^ SFScope
  5. ^ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LA_OBIT_ASPRIN_LAOL-?SITE=LAALE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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NAME Asprin, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Author
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johns, Michigan
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2008
PLACE OF DEATH
SciFan is an Online Database for fans of Science fiction and Fantasy Books. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. St Johns is a city in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7485 Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
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