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Robert Lynn Asprin
Born	June 28, 1946 (1946-06-28) (age 61) St. Johns, Michigan
Occupation	Fiction Author
Nationality	USA
Writing period	1977–Present
Genres	Science Fiction, Fantasy
Debut works	The Cold Cash War

Robert Lynn Asprin (born June 28, 1946) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his humorous MythAdventures series.

Contents 1 Biographical Timeline 2 Bibliography 2.1 Series 2.2 Other short fiction 2.3 Editor 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1964 through 1965. From 1965 through 1966 he served in the United States Army. 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.

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

Over the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, Lynn Abbey) the Thieves World series of shared world anthologies, perhaps one of the first projects of its type. As this series progressed, the Asprins lost control over many of the authors and the series ended in anarchy.^{[citation needed]} In 2002, Lynn Abbey resurrected the series with the novel Sanctuary. 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.

Also in 1979, Asprin began to chronicle the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz in the "MythAdventures" series. These follow a demon who has lost his powers and his inept human apprentice as they travel through a variety of worlds in pursuit of wealth and glory. The Myth series is highly pun-driven. Some of the early "Myth" novels were adapted as comic books by Phil Foglio and others.

In the 1990s, the "Phule's" novels followed a ragtag space military unit in its own adventures which were reminiscent, in some ways, of Skeeve and Aahz (although they owe a great deal more to Wodehouse).

Due to a series of personal and financial problems, Asprin stopped writing in the 1990s. Eventually, these problems were somewhat resolved, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he has written several novels in collaboration with authors Peter Heck, Jody Lynn Nye, and Linda Evans: as a result of the conditions of his agreement with the IRS, ^[1] it receives all income earned from books for which he is credited as sole author, and therefore it is in his own best interest to reduce his role to co-author. He is currently working with Meisha Merlin Publishing. These novels include continuations of the "Myth" series and the "Phule" series as well as works in original series.

• Tambu (1979)
• The Bug Wars (1979)
• Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe (1979) (with George Takei)
• Catwoman (1992) (with Lynn Abbey)
• License Invoked (February 2001), (ISBN 0-671-31978-7)
• For King and Country (July 2002), (ISBN 0-7434-3539-7)
• E.Godz (March 2005), (ISBN 0-7434-9888-7)

• MythAdventures

1. Another Fine Myth (1978)
2. Myth Conceptions (1980)
3. Myth Directions (1982)
4. Hit or Myth (1983)
5. Myth-ing Persons (1984)
6. Little Myth Marker (1985)
7. M.Y.T.H. inc. Link (1986)
8. Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (1987)
9. M.Y.T.H. inc. in Action (1990)
10. Sweet Myth-tery of Life (1993)
11. Myth-Ion Improbable (2001)
12. Something M. Y. T. H. Inc. (2002)
13. Myth-told Tales (2003) with Jody Lynn Nye
14. Myth Alliances (2003) with Jody Lynn Nye
15. Myth-taken Identity (2004) with Jody Lynn Nye
16. Class Dis-Mythed (2005) with Jody Lynn Nye
17. Myth-Gotten Gains (2006) with Jody Lynn Nye

• Omnibus editions
  1. MYTH Adventures (1984)
  2. Myth Adventures One (1985)
  3. Myth Alliances (Myth-ing Persons, Little Myth Marker, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link) (1986)
  4. The MYTH-ing Omnibus (1992)
  5. The Second MYTH-ing Omnibus (1992)
  6. M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action / Sweet Myth-Tery of Life (2002)
  7. M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link / Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (2002)
  8. Myth Adventures Three (2002)
  9. Myth-ing Persons / Little Myth Marker (2002)

• Duncan and Mallory (with Mel. White)

1. Duncan and Mallory (1986)
2. The Bar None Ranch (1987)
3. The Raiders (1988)

• Phule's Company

1. Phule's Company (1990)
2. Phule's Paradise (1992)
3. A Phule and His Money (1999) with Peter J. Heck.
4. Phule Me Twice (2000) with Peter J. Heck.
5. No Phule Like an Old Phule (2004) with Peter J. Heck.
6. Phule's Errand (2006) with Peter J. Heck.

• Time Scout (with Linda Evans)

1. Time Scout (1995)
2. Wagers of Sin (1995)
3. Ripping Time (2000)
4. The House that Jack Built (2000)

• Cold Cash

1. The Cold Cash War (1977)
2. Cold Cash Warrior (1989) (with Bill Fawcett)

• Wartorn (with Eric Del Carlo)

1. Resurrection (2004)
2. Obliteration (2006)

• "The Ex-Khan" in Angels in Hell (1987), part of the Heroes in Hell series
• "Two Gentlemen of the Trade" in Festival Moon (1987), part of the Merovingen Nights series
• "A Harmless Excursion" in Smugglers Gold (1988), also from Merovingen Nights
• "Mything in Dreamland" with Jody Lynn Nye in Masters of Fantasy (2004), part of the Myth series

• Thieves' World

1. Thieves' World (1979)
2. Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (1980)
3. Shadows of Sanctuary (1981)
4. Storm Season (1982)
5. The Face of Chaos (1983)
6. Wings of Omen (1984)
7. The Dead of Winter (1985)
8. Soul of the City (1986)
9. Blood Ties (1986)
10. Aftermath (1987)
11. Uneasy Alliances (1988)
12. Stealers' Sky (1989)

• Science fiction
  • authors
  • novels
  • short stories
  • television shows

• Bibliography on SciFan
• Robert Asprin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
• FAQ from Alt.Fan.Asprin
• Meisha Merlin Publishing are Asprin's current publishers.

Persondata
NAME	Asprin, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Johns, Michigan
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH