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Robert Asprin, author of the Myth-Adventure books, has died.

The Myth-Adventures were the books that got me into fantasy, especially comic fantasy. I still have the entire original series. I think that, more that anyone I've ever read, his books were what truly inspired me to write, and I feel that I owe a lot of my style to him.

I remember back when I first wrote the Infinites thing, way back in the second age... it was his cosmology, his description of all the parallel dimensions, and his style of humor that made me want to get into that... it's what drew me to CBUB in the first place, because the setting of that place was so much like his works. I think I based most of the magic system in my current writing on his laws...

...I'm starting every chapter in my book with a quote, just like he did. I wanted to do it with real quotes instead of made up ones... I guess I was trying to one-up him, y'know? I always hoped that he'd see it someday, after it had been published, and he'd get the joke... and then he'd call or write and we'd have a laugh about it, and... and...

I can't go on. He was a far greater man than I.

"The door has been opened for a new wave of talented writers, whose efforts are even now available on the stands. For those hitherto unrecognized humorists as well as for myself and the Myth gang, again, I thank you."

- Robert Lynn Asprin

"It's a lot harder to come up with 120 cute quotes than it is to invent 20! I often spend more time on the *##!! quotes than I do writing the book!"

- Ibid

Goddamnit...His work was really imaginative and fun.

How did he go?

AfterImage wrote:How did he go?

A heart attack, in his sleep.