Shadows of Sanctuary by Robert Lynn Asprin

License Revoked (New York: Baen Books, 2001) with Jody Lynn Nye.Catwoman: Tiger Hunt (London: Millennium, 1993) with Lynn Abbey.Catwoman (New York: Warner Books, 1992) with Lynn Abbey.Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe (Chicago, Illinois: Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1979) with George Takei.Three Faces of Asprin (New York: Baen Books, 2016).The Bug Wars (New York: St Martin's Press, 1979).The Cold Cash War (New York: St Martin's Press, 1977).

Wartorn: Obliteration (New York: Baen Books, 2006) with Eric Del Cario.Wartorn: Resurrection (New York: Baen Books, 2005) with Eric Del Cario.Phule's Company #6: Phule's Errand (New York: Ace Books, 2006) with Peter J Heck.Phule's Company #5: No Phule Like an Old Phule (New York: Ace Books, 2003) with Peter J Heck.Phule's Company #4: Phule Me Twice (New York: Ace Books, 2000) with Peter J Heck.Phule's Company #3: A Phule and His Money (New York: Ace Books, 1999) with Peter J Heck.

Phule's Company #2: Phule's Paradise (New York: Ace Books, 1992).

Phule's Company (New York: Ace Books, 1990).

Asprin's reputation lies mainly in the ingenuity of his braiding activities as editor, but his comic fiction was craftsmanlike. A more recent series, Wartorn, begins with Wartorn: Resurrection ( 2005) with Eric Del Cario. An exception is his Phule's Company sequence – beginning with Phule's Company ( 1990) and ending with Phule's Company #5: No Phule Like an Old Phule ( 2003) with Peter J Heck – which deploys the eponymous passel of ragbag soldiers in a Space-Opera universe.

Since 1979 almost all of Asprin's work was fantasy, mostly comic. sequence and the Elfquest sequence (see Richard Pini). Other fantasy sequences include the M.Y.T.H. Six Graphic-Novel versions of material from the sequence were published, all with Lynn Abbey (1948- ) and artist Tim Sale, beginning with Thieves' World Graphics 1 (graph 1986). The sequence begins with Thieves' World (anth 1979) and ends with Stealer's Sky (anth 1989). The individual volumes in the sequence – a Shared-World fantasy enterprise crafted by a number of writers – were designed by Asprin to comprise a number of stories written (or edited) so that they read as Braids he may have been the first sf or fantasy editor to create a significant braided anthology or novel. Asprin's later novels continued to chafe against similar real-life constraints, and it was not until the invention of the Thieves' World universe that he came into his own.

(1946-2008) US author who began publishing sf with his first novel, The Cold Cash War ( 1977), which alarmingly conflates Game-World antics (like fake Wars between mercenaries representing rival corporations on rented turf – Brazil, for instance, being visualized mainly as an arena for world-dominating firms to play games in) and a political rationale to legitimize the corporate control of Earth.

Shadows of Sanctuary by Robert Lynn Asprin