Cherry is the brother of the science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh (" Cherry " is the original spelling of the last name of the family ), and has painted cover art for some of her books as well as books by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sean Dalton, Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey ( Thieves ' World series ) and Piers Anthony.

Offutt has written and published numerous novels and short stories, including several in the " Thieves World " series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which feature his best known character, the thief, Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn ( and, later, Chance ).

Robert Asprin has a character called " The Sen Sen Ante Kid " in his novel Little Myth Marker.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

Robert Lynn Asprin ( June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008 ) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.

In 1976, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for The Capture, a cartoon slide show written by Asprin and drawn by Phil Foglio.

* The Capture, cartoon slide show written by Asprin and illustrated by Phil Foglio ; nominated for a 1976 Hugo Award

According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the " Road to ..." comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con-artists / adventurers.

The " first " Myth Adventures series was written by Asprin alone for the now-defunct publishing house The Donning Company under their Starblaze Graphics imprint ( with the last two published by Meisha Merlin, who picked up the contract from Donning ).

He also helped Bayer Asprin, for whom he's been an avid spokesperson, launch their first Wonders of the Heart contest, the first winners being announced in Summer 2007, and he also participated in a celebrity soccer match as part of a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, benefiting bone marrow transplant patients, which was organized by Olympic gold medalist Mia Hamm.

The 1987 inaugural Dragon * Con took place at the Piedmont Plaza Hotel, drew 1400 fans, and featured Guest of Honor Michael Moorcock, Lynn Abbey and Robert Asprin, Robert Adams, Ultima creator Richard " Lord British " Garriott, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons Gary Gygax and Toastmaster Brad Strickland.

Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the " MythAdventures " series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book Little Myth Marker.

* 1897 – Asprin is invented in Germany.

Thieves ' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.

The Cold Cash War is a 1977 science fiction novel by Robert Asprin.

MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series by Robert Lynn Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye.

In 1978, Asprin began the " MythAdventures " series, chronicling the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth.

* In the opening chapter of the book Phule's Company by Robert Asprin, the main character Willard Phule uses Scaramouche as his alias.

For publisher Donning / Starblaze, Foglio illustrated the MythAdventures series of fantasy novels by Robert Lynn Asprin, and later adapted the first book, Another Fine Myth, into an eight-issue comic-book series from WaRP Graphics.

In addition to Elfquest, WaRP also published several other comic book series, including MythAdventures and related titles by Robert Asprin, and Thunder Bunny, created by Martin Greim.

) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using " Myth " would be much better if the book would become a series.

Beth was mentioned in the novel Dragons Wild ( both thanked as a test reader and mentioned briefly in the plot ) by late sci-fi / fantasy author Robert Asprin, as well as the third book in the series, Dragons Deal by Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye.

* 2008 – Robert Asprin, American author ( b. 1946 )

Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1964 through 1965.

Due to a series of personal and financial problems, Asprin stopped writing in the 1990s.

One of Asprin ’ s last projects was NO Quarter, originally co-authored with Eric Del Carlo, and later edited by Teresa Patterson.

* FAQ from Alt. Fan. Asprin

Robert Asprin wrote The Bug Wars, a novel about war between reptiles and insects on an interplanetary scale.

Maritato was introduced on WWE television as Nunzio, a possible reference to the mob / bodyguard characters Guido and Nunzio in the MythAdventures series of books by Robert Asprin.

On August 28, 1982 she married Robert Asprin, editor of the Thieves World books, and became his co-editor.

Abbey and Asprin divorced in 1993 and Abbey moved to Oklahoma City.

), Thea von Harbou ( Metropolis ), Robert A. Heinlein ( Citizen of the Galaxy ), Robert Asprin ( The Cold Cash War ) and Andre Norton ( the Solar Queen novels ).

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

This viewpoint I find interesting, but it has never weighed on my soul.

We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.

Patchen has almost never used strict poetic forms ; ;

The doctrine has never worked ; ;

As the girls come to belly dancing from this and other origins, the melting pot has never bubbled more intriguingly.

For something, clearly, has gone very, very seriously wrong in Soviet-Chinese relations, which were never easy, and have now deteriorated.

Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

Meanwhile he has been thinking about the facts surrounding the problem, facts which he knows can never be complete, and the general background, much of which has already been lost to history.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

Nevertheless, the writer has never experienced such spontaneity of discussion after film showings.