Jody Lynn Nye (born 1957) is an American science fiction writer. She is the author or co-author of approximately forty published novels and more than 100 short stories. She has specialized in science fiction or fantasy action novels and humor. Her humorous series range from contemporary fantasy ( The Magic Touch and Mythology 101 ) to military science fiction ( Strong Arm Tactics and a new series beginning with View from the Imperium ). About one-third of her novels are collaborations, either as a co-author or as the author of a sequel. She has been an instructor of the Fantasy Writing Workshop at Columbia College Chicago (2007) and she teaches the annual Science Fiction Writing Workshop at DragonCon .
19-563: Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan , known best for his humorous series MythAdventures and Phule's Company . Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan , and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1964 through 1965. From 1965 through 1966 he served in the United States Army . He
38-493: A cartoon slide show written by Asprin and drawn by Phil Foglio . Asprin's first novel, The Cold Cash War , an expansion of an earlier short story of the same title, was published in 1977. During the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, Lynn Abbey ) the Thieves' World series of shared world anthologies, credited as the first project of its type. Many of the authors later produced novels and stories of
57-472: A collection published in 1969. She wrote three Ship novels in collaboration with three different women that were published in 1992 and 1993. Asprin alone wrote two novels in the Griffen McCandles series, published 2008 and 2009. Anne McCaffrey inaugurated the long-running Pern series in 1967; Piers Anthony the long-running Xanth series in 1977. ISFDB catalogs the four Crossroads Adventures as novels,
76-610: A series of personal and financial problems, Asprin published little during the 1990s, although he had two books on The New York Times Best Seller list , which piqued the interest of fans and the Internal Revenue Service . He eventually negotiated an agreement with the IRS that encouraged him to resume writing, and during the early 2000s he published several novels, mostly in collaboration with authors Peter Heck , Jody Lynn Nye , and Linda Evans . These novels included continuations of
95-874: The Role-Aids line of game supplements published by Mayfair Games . Late in the eighties Nye wrote six companion books for the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey and the Magic of Xanth series by Piers Anthony . The first four were "branching-path" gamebooks in the Crossroads Adventure series, two set on Pern and two in Xanth. Then simultaneously November 1989, Ballantine Books published The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Nye with McCaffrey and Avon Books published Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth by Nye and Anthony. Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse were
114-593: The 1990s Nye began work with Robert Asprin to extend the Myth Adventures series he had started in 1978. After his 2008 death she continued to write books they had planned. Meanwhile, three of Nye's book series were "adrift" since Meisha Merlin Publishing went out of business in 2007. Among other projects, Nye is continuing to write the Myth Adventures series and her military SF/humor series begun with View from
133-629: The Imperium (2011). Asprin alone wrote 12 novels in the MythAdventures series that were published from 1978 to 2002. McCaffrey alone wrote two Dinosaur Planet novels that were published in 1978 and 1984. She and Elizabeth Moon inaugurated the Planet Pirates subseries in a novel that was published a few months before McCaffrey and Nye's. McCaffrey alone wrote one Doona novel that was published in 1969. McCaffrey alone wrote The Ship Who Sang ,
152-554: The author. NO Quarter was published November 2009 by DarkStar Books. Asprin's ofttimes co-author, Jody Lynn Nye , has completed one further Griffen McCandles novel, Dragons Deal , and continued the Myth Adventures series. Dragons Deal was published by Ace in December 2010. Asprin died on May 22, 2008, of heart failure at his home in New Orleans. He was found lying on a sofa with a Terry Pratchett novel still open in his hands. He
171-542: The authors are known for work outside the fantasy genres. Jody Lynn Nye Nye began collaborating with Robert Lynn Asprin on the MythAdventures series in 2003 with the publication of the collection Myth-told Tales and the novel Myth Alliances . Since Asprin's death in 2008 she has continued that humorous fantasy series and she is now also writing sequels to his Dragons, or Griffen McCandles, contemporary fantasy series. In 2008 she donated her archive to
190-514: The brutal murder that is the emphasis of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild . The two protagonists of NO Quarter , Maestro and Bone, also appear as minor characters of the Dragons novels. Maestro, the mysterious professional pool player and fencing master in NO Quarter , is fictionalized but based recognizably on
209-493: The department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University Libraries. Born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, Nye says that she "always told stories" to her younger brothers, cousins, and friends, and as a junior camp counselor. Her first published writings were technical articles on broadcasting in the magazine "Video Action" during the 1980s. She first wrote fiction for the "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine game" and
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#1733114351254228-423: The early "Myth" novels were adapted later as comic books by Foglio and others. The Myth books have been published by three publishing companies over the years: Donning Starblaze , Meisha Merlin and, as of 2008, Wildside Press . During the 1990s, Asprin's "Phule" novels concerned the humorous science-fiction exploits of a rag-tag "Space Legion" and its wealthy and iconoclastic commander, Willard Phule. Due to
247-615: The illustrators for both Guides, as Hamilton had been for Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Amber published by Avon one year earlier. For the Pern guide, Nye explained in its introduction, her team (without Clouse) had visited McCaffrey two years earlier, for ten days during October 1987. In the living room Nye, editor Bill Fawcett (Nye's husband), illustrator Hamilton, and McCaffrey's son Todd Johnson discussed Pern with its creator and Hamilton sketched under her direction. They produced "a companion volume to her work, intended to help you visualize
266-456: The series "Myth Adventures" and "Phule's Company" as well as works of new series. One of Asprin's last projects was NO Quarter , originally co-authored with Eric Del Carlo, and later edited by Teresa Patterson. It is a dark fantasy/suspense/murder mystery novel set in the author's beloved New Orleans French Quarter. Although the novel's fantasy elements (voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism) are secondary to
285-425: The series with the novel Sanctuary . During 1978, Asprin began the " MythAdventures " series, chronicling the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth . Illustrated originally by Frank Kelly Freas , and later by Phil Foglio , the pun -rich books concern a "demon" magician who has lost his powers and his inexperienced human apprentice as they travel through a variety of worlds. Some of
304-502: The setting and background for her chronicles." Before The Dragonlover's Guide was finished, McCaffrey and Nye were working together on a novel, presumably The Death of Sleep (1990) in the Planet Pirates trilogy . In the early 1990s they collaborated in three series based on McCaffrey stories from the 1960s and 1970s. Meanwhile, McCaffrey completed five more Pern books, after which they revised The Dragonlover's Guide . Late in
323-611: The theme which were not included in the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by Janet Morris , the first "authorized" Thieves World novel, published in 1985. Janet Morris and Chris Morris later produced two more authorized Thieves' World novels and a series of related novels about their character Tempus and the Sacred Band of Stepsons . A series of graphic novels followed during the mid-1980s, and several other authors, including Andrew J. Offutt and David Drake , published novels about their characters. In 2002, Lynn Abbey revived
342-641: Was married, twice, and had two children. He was active in science fiction fandom and in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism using the name "Yang the Nauseating", and co-initiated the society Great Dark Horde during 1971. He was also the initiator and an influential member of the Dorsai Irregulars . In 1976, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for The Capture ,
361-534: Was to have been the Guest of Honor at Marcon that weekend. During 2008, his heirs donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University . A series of three graphic novels published by Starblaze Graphics . Fantasy authors This is a list of fantasy authors , authors known for writing works of fantasy , fantasy literature , or related genres of magic realism , horror fiction , science fantasy . Many of
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