RiP, "Yang the Nauseating" June 28, 1946 - May 22, 2008

[lagilman]

It's been reported on sff.net that Robert Lynn Asprin has died.

I knew Bob years and years ago, back when I was at Ace. I worked on some of the MythAdventures and the Phule's Company books, and was always in awe at the level of punnish pain Bob could inflict. But more than all that, I will remember him for being part of the crowd that gave us Thieves World -- a series that showed me how well-done gritty fantasy could be, and how very difficult it was to do properly.

Bob did not have an easy life, and -- to steal from another now-gone friend, Charlie Grant, he was too often an example of what NOT to do to your career. But he gifted us with many hours of enjoyable reading, and so I raise a glass tonight, in memory....

We forgive you the Great Dark Horde, Bob.

(ducks whaps from my SCAdian friends)

Comments

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it. I read the first couple of MythAdventures books and remember enjoying them.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

He taught me a great deal about how the business end of publishing worked -- but he did have a gift for planting his foot in the wrong place in the yard. I know he loved living in the Quarter -- I just wish he could have completed the resurrection of his career.

[rovanda.livejournal.com]

*sad* I never had the honor of meeting him, but I grew up loving the MythAdventures books.

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh... Thieves World. That brought me back some memories.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Crap. :(

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

I loved Thieves World. And I had no idea he was a cofounder of the Horde.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

damn.