When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians. But unbeknownst to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules for the price of one as a robot double of Captain Phule appears out of nowhere.
"There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know. " -Hamlet One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled. It was true when my mother taught me to read, it was true when my father tried to teach me to be a farmer, and it's true now when I'm learning magik. "You haven't been practicing! " Garkin's...
Perhaps if I hadn't been so preoccupied with my own thoughts when I walked into my quarters that day, I wouldn't have been caught unawares. Still, who expects to get caught in a magikal attack just walking into their own room?
Publication details not specified. The third book in Robert Asprin's "Myth" series about the magician Aahz and his student. Language: English. Ingratitude! Aahz made his appeal to the ceiling. I lose my powers to a stupid practical joker, and instead of concentrating on getting them back, I take on some twit of an apprentice who doesn’t have any aspirations higher than being a...
Robert Asprin's most famous series is Myth, in one archive. Original, in English Another Fine Myth, Donning (Norfolk, VA), 1978; Revised edition, illustrated by Phil Foglio, 1985. Audiotape version: read by Jeff Woodman, Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD), 1986. Myth Conceptions, illustrated by Polly and Kelly Freas, Donning, 1980. Audiotape version: read by Jeff Woodman,...
It has been said that every great man deserves a biographer. I have therefore taken it upon myself to keep a private record of my employer's activities during his career in the Space Legion. If there are those who would, perhaps, contest his qualifications as a great man, I would answer that he is the closest thing to a great man that it has been my privilege to associate with...
Settle Back for a hot one: it's spring time. 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. And Skeeter Jackson,...
It's hard to keep a good psychopath downtime. And it's harder to figure which psychopath to fear most! Senator John Caddrick hires a professional assassin to murder his own daughter and threatens to destroy the whole time-touring industry. Caddrick's hired gun plans a high-level double cross - but then everyone's plans are thrown into chaos when Jack the Ripper's killing spree...
Kenneth "Kit" Carson was one of the best time scouts in the business. Nowadays, Kit prefers to be a hotelier at Time Terminal 86. He has sworn off gallivanting through the centuries. Kit might take an occasional consulting fee to keep his hand in, but no more travel-until his granddaughter takes a trip through an unauthorized Gate and winds up lost in time.
When a disaster nearly destroys the universe, survivors from the planet Earth carefully rebuild their changed world, which has become susceptible to shifting time lines and challenges the wits of mischievous Skeeter Jackson.
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