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Thieves' World (Thieves' World #1)

Robert Lynn Asprin

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 308 pages

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Title	:	Thieves' World (Thieves' World #1)
Author	:	Robert Lynn Asprin
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 308 pages
Published	:	September 15th 1982 by Ace Books (first published October 1st 1979)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Anthologies. Short Stories. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Interesting factoid: the first six Thieves' World collections should appear in the Kindle store in February 2020, thanks to the efforts of Open Road Media. The task of securing rights was probably significant.

I'd be curious if this experiment--a shared setting and usable set of characters--has ever been repeated. The logical conclusion would be open-source or copylefted material, and the only thing I know of is the Jenny Everywhere project. Sadly the most common example these days is tie-in novels and licensed properties.

So the essay itself, "The Making of Thieves' World", is the standout piece, as being partially a fascinating insight on wrangling together this material, as well as a bit about how this outstanding example of worldbuilding came together.

On this reading (versus decades ago) the best stories trade places with the others, with the hardscrabble, character-driven ones being more involving and resonant than the boilerplate sword-and-sorcery adventure stuff that attracted me originally.

Strangely, the story that I most remembered, "The Secret of the Blue Star", has aged poorly because of real-world changes to gender politics. The drama circling Lythande's "Secret" is so particularly heavy-handed and telegraphing that one wonders if any reader at the time was truly surprised by the twist ending. But I'm curious what this story would look like if written today. Also, the later accusations made against Marion Zimmer Bradley are only highlighted by the fact that a character here, Bercy, is concocted as a romantic or sexual object but her description signals her as being inappropriately young.

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Original Title:	Thieves' World
ISBN:	0441805914 (ISBN13: 9780441805914)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Thieves' World #1
Characters:	Molin Torchholder, Cappen, Kadakithis, Amar
Setting:	Sanctuary
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Anthology (1980), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology/Collection (1980), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Collection/Anthology (1980)

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This is the first shared world anthology I've ever read back in the late 1970's, it may be the first ever published, lots followed like Wild Cards and Merovingen Nights two of my favorites. My favorite stories from this first volume are Poul Anderson and Marion Zimmer Bradley, my favorite character is the thief Shadowspawn by Andrew Offutt who went on to write a standalone novel Shadowspawn.This one paragraph from Anderon's story says more about the series then 10,000 words from myself could

(I'm no longer updating my books-read-on-the-commute-count with every single post. I may periodically do it on nice round numbers. Or not. We'll see.)Thieves' World is a book I've been meaning to read for ages. It's an anthology of fantasy short stories edited by Robert Asprin, who wrote a series of books informally known as the "Myth" books (they were comedies about a demon named Aahz and a sorcerer's apprentice named Skeeve and the books' titles all had puns in them: "Another Fine Myth",

This is one of those books I have know of - at least the title for many many years but never thought I would have the opportunity to read.This is a classic fantasy book from the end of the 70s. Now I am sure there are more learned readers out there than me who can say for sure but I believe this was one of the first truly shared worlds. The idea being is that rather than each time a fantasy story is to be told a new world has to be made. There is in fact one already created and waiting for your

The first stone in the Thieves' World, a setting created by Robert Lynn Asprin but co-developed by a multitude of writers. Thieves' World introduces the city of Sanctuary, the core area of this fantasy world - the recently changed political situation, as well as the human geography of the settlement are very satisfyingly elaborated on through the actions and minds of the 9 (counting also the introduction) stories' characters, each penned by a different author. Thieves' World draws first and

This is a collection set in the same city and with overlapping characters. Each story is written by a different author. The story collection is centered on gritty thieves, magicians and the assorted dregs of a fantasy city riddled with crime. I remember this book as getting a lot of attention and making an impact. Plainly now it is because of the gimmick of the construction of the book now. The world is a fairly conventional fantasy setting and it is often inconsistent, although it is rightly

The first book of one of my favorite anthologies of all time.Some real winners and losers here, but I'll review just this specific book (not the whole series)Lynn Abbey, Robert Lynn Asprin, and Christine deWees really brought an 'A' game. Marion Zimmer Bradley and Poul Anderson completely phoned it in.The characters, themes, and atmosphere of this series/anthology is top-notch, and there's a lot more hits than misses. This first book is not vital to the appreciation of the series, but it sure