Myth Conceptions
- 208pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
A fantasy story written by the author of The Cold Cash War, The Bug Wars, Tambu, Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe, Thieves' World Series and Another Fine Myth.






A fantasy story written by the author of The Cold Cash War, The Bug Wars, Tambu, Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe, Thieves' World Series and Another Fine Myth.
Skeeve, the Court Magician to Possiltum is ordered to impersonate King Roderick for a day. One of his duties is to marry Roderick's fiance, Queen Hemlock, who possesses the sort of face and figure that features in the before bit in adverts. Her habits, too, fall into the category of homicidal.
Mixing magic, mayhem, myth and mirth, Myth Directions is the third book in Robert Asprin's clathic of comic fantathy.
Skeeve, a powerful young magician, and his companions venture into an upside-down dimension to search for his missing demon partner, Aahz, in Myth-ing Persons, and finds himself saddled with Markie, a pint-sized troublemaker, as an IOU for a high-stakes poker game in Little Myth Marker, in an entertaining omnibus volume.
A magician's apprentice, only half-way through his indentures, a purple-tongued demon, a universe populated by devils, imps, dragons and unicorns is the basis of a funny non-stop switchback of magic, mayhem and mythadventure.
Svět zlodějů je jedinečný zážitek: výplod obrazotvornosti, svět, kde neplatí zákony, kde vládnou násilí a prohnanost a magie je stále mocná; přivedený na svět současnými špičkovými spisovateli fantasy, kteří navzájem užívají své postavy (ale nelikvidují si je… nebo aspoň ne příliš hojně!)
Frank Barry. terrorist of the highest order. His ideology is money and his track record is flawless. When the Russians want review copies of the latest NATO missile system, Barry is the man to deliver them. Martin Brosnan, poet, scholar and killer. Trained in Vietnam then polished in the ranks of the IRA he now languishes in a French prison fortress of Belle Isle. Liam Devlin, Brosnan's best and oldest friend. Devlin wants Brosnan out of jail and Barry's trail, and he'll use everything in his power to do so...
Guido and Nunzio may not be the brightest bodyguards in the world—but they certainly are faithful. When Skeeve "the Great" asks them to join the army of Possiltum, the two thugs volunteer without question. Except...whose side are they on? Queen Hemlock's? The Mob's Fairy Godfather's? Skeeve's? The two baffled bodyguards barely have time to figure it all out—they've been handed government-issue crossbows, armored with leather skirts, and given combat orders by the dreaded drill sergeant Smiley. With war heroes like these...who needs enemies?