The Face of Chaos

by Robert Asprin

Other authorsLynn Abbey

Paperback, 1984

Status

Available

Call number

813.087608

Publication

Ace (1984), Paperback

Description

Robert (Lynn) Asprin was born in 1946. While he has written some stand alone novels such as Cold Cash War, Tambu, The Bug Wars and also the Duncan and Mallory Illustrated stories, Bob is best known for his series: The Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve; the Phule novels; and, more recently, the Time Scout novels written with Linda Evans. He also edited the groundbreaking Thieves World anthologies with Lynn Abbey. His most recent collaboration is License Invoked written with Jody Lynn Nye. It is set in the French Quarter, New Orleans where he currently lives.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Karlstar

By this point in the Thieves World series, I'd started to lose interest. The story lines were either getting too focused on individuals, or too divergent, and just a little strange. Still a great collection of authors, including Drake, Abbey, Paxson and Cherryh. This is the last book of the series

I purchased, though I do think I read #6 at some point.

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LibraryThing member CarltonC

Another visit to Sanctuary (the fifth), which follows the arrival of the Beysib traders/invaders/exiles at the end of the previous collection, Storm Season.
This anthology of short stories advances the history of Sanctuary, but as there are the departures of Tempus and the Stepsons, as well as the

Beysib arrivals, the tales feel more disjointed, although the overall narrative arc is maintained.
So enjoyable as another episode in the continuing saga, but not as satisfying as previous books.

My Kindle version, read over 35 years after my original reading, does not have a new story heading for "Votary" by David Drake, which starts at page 382 of my Kindle omnibus edition, and is very annoyingly missing the final story, “Mirror Image" by Diana L. Paxson.

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