Robert Asprin

Born in 1946 in St. John's, Michigan, Robert Asprin is the creator of many a humorous science fiction and fantasy worlds-including a collaboration among major writers to create the Thieves World series. Asprin attended the University of Michigan before enlisting in the Army during the Vietnam War. He then spent 12 years working at Xerox before becoming a full-time writer.

He and his then-wife, Lynn Abbey, created the concept of a shared-world novel with the Thieves' World series. They edited and contributed to the series along with such well-known writers as Marion Zimmer Bradley, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer, Joe Haldeman, Vonda McIntyre, Diane Paxson, and A.E. van Vogt. In 1979, Asprin began the pun-filled MYTH series about a demon and his apprentice.

Another first that Asprin is credited with is holding the first public filksing at a convention-Discon 2 in 1974. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he began collaborating with such writers as Peter Heck, Jody Lynn Nye, Eric del Carlo, and Linda Evans.

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