Bøger af Robert Asprin

After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin's Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule's company operates with their own unique tactics....

A comedic fantasy masterpiece years in the making, here are the complete Myth tales of "New York Times "best-seller Robert Asprin collected for the first time. Included is "all "the short fiction set in Asprin's legendarily hilarious mythic world of sword, sorcery and wordplay. These tales chronicle the misadventures of Skeeve and Aahz, a magician who has lost his power and his hapless human apprentice, as they travel through strange worlds in pursuit of wealth, glory, and good-times--but succeed mostly in getting into one myth-filled mess after another. Also includes more short works by Asprin together with the award-winning novelette "The Cold Cash War," and a trove of previously unpublished stories discovered after the writer's death! About Robert Asprin's Myth series: "(Asprin's MYTH books are) stuffed with rowdy fun."--"Philadelphia Inquirer"." . .plenty of action and quirky humor."--"Library Journal""All the MYTH books are hysterically funny."--"Analog"

The New York Times bestselling author scales new heights in his series of Big Easy-dwelling dragons... Griffen McCandles is adjusting well to running his gambling operation in the French Quarter of New Orleans and to his newfound status as head dragon. Other dragons are getting a whiff of his reputation, though, and they're not happy about it. Which is why there's suddenly a hit out on him. And, just in time for Halloween, the ghost of a voodoo queen wants Griffen to moderate a supernatural conclave. And though the strange goings-on will barely be noticed in a city used to drunken conventioneers and wild revelers, it's Griffen's chance to spread his wings-or crash and burn.

When terrorists gun down Jenna Caddrick's fiancee, the only daughter of Senator John Caddrick is trapped in a desperate struggle to stay alive. With a pack of killers on her trail, Jenna plunges through Shangri-La Station's time touring gates - and lands in London of 1888, just in time to meet Jack the Ripper.

A collection of short novels and stories set in the many worlds of the author. It contains his other short works, including his award-winning novelette "Cold Cash War", and several unpublished stories discovered after the writer's death.

Pursuing a less dangerous career as a hotelier at Time Terminal 86, former time scout Kenneth "Kit" Carson finds his peace disrupted when a redhead travels through an illicit time gate that threatens to abandon her in time.

After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin's Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule's company operates with their own unique tactics....

When an experiment on an orbiting space station went wrong-bad wrong-ripples in time washed over the Earth bringing global disaster. The survivors, beginning to rebuild, learned that they were now able to travel into the past, utilizing the remnant time strings. But first, the time strings had to be mapped.

Aahz falls for the offer of a piece of the rock, literally, when he invests in a scheme to build pyramids. He is so enthusiastic about the concept that he ropes in everyone else he knows to invest. But all is not perfect. It's up to Skeeve to figure out why the deal is running sour even before the ink's dry on the papyrus.