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Eric P

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Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« on: May 27, 2008, 04:05:08 PM »
my favorite stuff he did was Phule's Company.  I didn't really like the Myth stuff but liked the Foglio adaptations.

http://www.sfwa.org/news/2008/rasprin.htm

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Author and editor, Robert Lynn Asprin passed away unexpectedly in his home in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 22, 2008. His body was discovered lying on his sofa with a science fiction book in hand. Paramedics were unable to revive him.

Asprin was the author of nearly 50 novels including the Phule series and The Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve. He collaborated with many authors including Bill Fawcett, Mel White, Peter J Heck, Eric Del Carlo, George Takei, and Esther Friesner. His best known collaboration was with his ex-wife, Lynn Abbey, with whom he co-edited the popular Thieves World books.

He had just contracted two new novels with Ace SF and was also working on a new Myth Adventures novel with Jody Lynn Nye. He was scheduled to be the Guest of Honor at MarCon this weekend and was discovered when being picked up for travel to the convention.

Asprin is survived by his mother, his sister, his daughter and his son, and his cat, Princess, not to mention countless friends and fans and numerous legendary fictional characters. He will be greatly missed.

Posted May 23, 2008

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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2008, 04:22:35 PM »
People around my dad's age keep dying and it's freaking me out.
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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2008, 04:23:36 PM »
i didn't think about it until your post, but this man is one year younger than my father
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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2008, 04:24:11 PM »
Another Fine Myth  :bow

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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2008, 04:25:31 PM »
He's six years older than my dad but my dad has 3 forms of cancer and is a chain smoker and alcoholic hmmmm

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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2008, 04:45:54 PM »
How many threads about dead irrelevant people are you going to make?

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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2008, 04:53:06 PM »
It's not a tragedy when old people die. Even at 62, he has probably lived 5 of my lives in his 1.
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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2008, 05:09:07 PM »
That sucks, I just picked up one of his latest books. I grabbed the huge two volume compilation of his myth stuff too. Didnt realize he was so old

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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2008, 05:11:26 PM »
I wonder what book it was.
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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2008, 05:13:32 PM »
I wonder what book it was.

Probably the Dragons Wild series he had just started. I have the first book :/
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Re: Robert Asprin (1946-2008)
« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2008, 05:13:57 PM »
How many threads about dead people are you going to make?

And my parents are getting up there too.  I'm more concerned about my mother who's addicted to cigarettes, but it really is kind of odd realizing your own and your parents' mortality.

as many as it takes to shame them into not dying like the pussies they are
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