Robert Asprin (1946–2008)

All I can say is, I don't know why I've waited all these years to read these!!! I remember when these books first came out, and thinking that I would want to own them some day.
This first installment of the Myth Adventures was just absolutely witty and a lot of fun! Great characters and a great adventure! The character development was very thin, but I think that's what makes this a great (and short) book. Robert Asprin wastes no time in drudging his story down with pointless fleshing out of show more his characters. Get to the point and move on!
Aahz... I love this guy!!! Brilliant, funny and clever!!! Hands down my favorite character here!!! Even the minor "main" characters of Gleep and Tanda, not overly necessary but a great addition to the adventure, even though they didn't appear until much later in the story.
I will definitely be reading the rest of these little gems! show less

Dragon's Wild lives up to Asprin's tradition of well told but quirky stories that you can't help laughing at. It's less out-right farcical than Phule's Company and the Mything series, which means it worked better for me as a humorous read (I'm not really a fan of farce.) Dragon's Wild kept me laughing out loud.

If you are a critical reader, this is not the book for you. Other reviewers criticisms of exposition and weak story are legit. For me the characters, the feel of the Big Easy, the show more world, and especially the humor more than made up for that, but YMMV. show less

Bumbling but loyal bodyguards Guido and Nunzio join the army of Possiltum on behalf of Skeeve the Great. As the duo navigates military life, they face confusion over whose side they are actually on, while Skeeve deals with romantic complications in a humorous fantasy tale of love and war.

This is the sixth Thieves World anthology set in Sanctuary and the first that I didn’t read thirty odd years ago. To best appreciate this, you definitely need to have read the previous stories, as characters from earlier stories are met in passing, adding to the depth and enjoyment of the tales. Indeed, the the feeling of these being further adventures, developing existing characters greatly added to the stories. (I have read novels about individual characters out of sequence, and this show more anthology “filled in” the return of the authentic Stepsons from Wizardwall, the arrival of members of the Rankan 3rd Commandos and Shadowspawn’s adventures).
Much is happening, with changes in Ranke impacting upon Sanctuary, as well as further resistance to the Beysib invaders. As others have commented, these stories stand out from other fantasy stories that I have read in that they collectively form a sense of a greater life (world building) than that glimpsed in the individual stories. As also noted, they are not of the greatest literary style, but they work for me, and are all the more impressive for creating a generally coherent narrative whilst being written by different authors from different characters’ points of view.
There is no contents page in my Kindle copy, so for completeness, this anthology includes:
Introduction by Robert Lynn Asprin
"What Women Do Best" by Chris and Janet Morris
"Daughter of the Sun" by Robin W. Bailey
"A Breath of Power" by Diana L. Paxson
"The Hand That Feeds You" by Diane Duane - without heading and starts on page 515 of Kindle anthology
"Witching Hour" by C. J. Cherryh
"Rebels Aren't Born in Palaces" by Andrew J. Offutt
"Gyskouras" by Lynn Abbey
"A Fish With Feathers is Out of His Depth" by Robert Lynn Asprin show less