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Ace (1955)
Description
Robert (Lynn) Asprin was born in 1946. While he has written some stand alone novels such as Cold Cash War, Tambu, The Bug Wars and also the Duncan and Mallory Illustrated stories, Bob is best known for his series: The Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve; the Phule novels; and, more recently, the Time Scout novels written with Linda Evans. He also edited the groundbreaking Thieves World anthologies with Lynn Abbey. His most recent collaboration is License Invoked written with Jody Lynn Nye. It is set in the French Quarter, New Orleans where he currently lives.
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LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
A group of authors develop a world that's dark and nasty and set their imaginations free and oh man do they do nasty things to their characters. As an exploration of a dark world it's interesting but in some ways I really didn't engage with any of the characters.
LibraryThing member Darla
The 3rd in the series. I was right, I enjoyed the 3rd more than the 2nd, because I was familiar with the characters. Must look for the first one.
LibraryThing member sa54d
I read the first 5 of the Sactuary shared world anthologies of which I believe this is the third. I kept this one and gave it 5 stars because one story had a profound effect on me when I first read it in my mid-20s. "Looking for Satan" touched on a number of aspects of my life at that time and I
Aside from the profound effect that one story had on me, the book and the series are great, enjoyable and well worth reading.
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read this as I was making plans for what to do when I grew up. The story helped me focus on a number of elements in my life that I needed to fix and made me realize what living in New York City was doing to me. (Of course the city has changed considerably since the mid 1980s when I lived there - no insult to New Yorkers intended). Aside from the profound effect that one story had on me, the book and the series are great, enjoyable and well worth reading.
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LibraryThing member Lyn.S.Soussi
Brilliant fantasy writing.. Funny, believable characters, action just left of centre keeps you guessing. Recommended read in my humble opinion.
LibraryThing member Karlstar
The Thieves World ongoing shared world series continues with #3. Some new authors this time, Vonda McIntyre, Paxson and Cherryh join the regulars. This is still high quality fantasy with a coherent story line, though by this point it is starting to wander off at times.
LibraryThing member CarltonC
In this third Thieves’ World anthology, the stories really complement each other and those from the earlier anthologies to bring to life a wonderful fantasy setting, the decadent, decaying town of Sanctuary.
Because the stories are written by different authors, there is unevenness in style, but
Although lacking the humour of Lankhmar or Discworld, they are otherwise my favourite “swords and sorcery” books. And this anthology includes more of Andrew J Offutt’s Shadowspawn and Janet Morris’ A Man and his God, which is a satisfying closing story, bursting with further tales to be told, in Storm Season.
Another reread from nearly 40 years ago.
Because the stories are written by different authors, there is unevenness in style, but
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this is more than compensated by the detail created by multiple narrators who are the leading characters in their stories, but also appear as minor characters or references in other stories.Although lacking the humour of Lankhmar or Discworld, they are otherwise my favourite “swords and sorcery” books. And this anthology includes more of Andrew J Offutt’s Shadowspawn and Janet Morris’ A Man and his God, which is a satisfying closing story, bursting with further tales to be told, in Storm Season.
Another reread from nearly 40 years ago.
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Awards
Locus Award (Finalist — Anthology — 1982)
Language
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English
Original publication date
1981
Physical description
7 inches
ISBN
0441760309 / 9780441760305