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Robert Asprin - Another Fine Myth 1978 (Unab) Myth # 1

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Robert Asprin - Another Fine Myth 1978 (Unab) Myth # 1

Unabridged, 56 kbps, 6:15:38


http://www.amazon.com/Another-Fine-Myth-Book/dp/0441023622

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Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Ace; 15th THUS edition (November 15, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0441023622
ISBN-13: 978-0441023622


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Fine_Myth


Another Fine Myth is a 1978 humor novel written by Robert Lynn Asprin (based on the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby ROAD TO... movies), and is the first book in the Myth Adventures series.

Skeeve is a magicians apprentice and wannabe thief on the backwater dimension of Klah. At the beginning of the story Skeeves master, the Master Magician Garkin, has been attempting to teach his apprentice the basics of how to tap and control magical energies for several months but to no avail. Despite Garkins best efforts, Skeeve can do little more than float a feather or light a candle using magic. Believing that it is Skeeves desire to become a thief that is keeping him from mastering the basics of magical control, Garkin attempts to show his apprentice what magic can really do and so he decides to show him by summoning a demon.

During the summoning an assassin barges into the hut. Garkin and the assassin manage to kill each other leaving an unfortunate Skeeve alone with the now summoned demon, a humanoid creature with golden eyes, green scales, long talons, and a mouthful of razor sharp teeth. To Skeeves surprise the demon politely introduces himself as Aahz. Aahz explains that demon is slang for Dimension Traveler. He further explains that there are thousands of dimensions with different races in them, and that he is from the dimension of Perv, making Aahz a Pervect, while Skeeve is from the dimension of Klah, and would be called a Klahd. Aahz, who is a master magician like Garkin, somehow lost his magical powers during the summoning ritual so now hes stranded in the dimension of Klah with Skeeve. Stuck on a backwater dimension with no way off and realizing that whoever sent the Imp Assassin after Garkin is coming to get Skeeve next, Aahz volunteers to take Skeeve on as his apprentice and teach him magic.

The pair then embark on a series of misadventures as they attempt to evade the Imp assassin duo trailing Skeeve and work out a plan to confront Isstvan, a dangerous master magician who plans to conquer all the other dimensions starting with Klah. Along the way they meet, and swindle, a demon hunter named Quigley. They encounter the Imp assassins, Higgins and Brockhurst, and are only saved by Skeeves mastery of a disguise spell taught to him by Aahz. With information from the Imps they manage to locate a deveel merchant named Frumple in the town of Twist. Although the encounter with Frumple doesnt go exactly as planned (he nearly gets them killed), they do manage to get him to arrange transport to the dimension of Deva (where the Deveels live) so they can visit the Bazaar in hopes of finding something to use against Isstvan.

On Deva Aahz abandons Skeeve while he searches for a solution to their Isstvan problem. Skeeve in the meantime manages to get into all kinds of trouble. First Skeeve accidentally feeds a baby dragon (Gleep) thus bonding with him. The infuriated dragon master forces Skeeve to purchase the baby dragon explaining that Skeeve has ruined him for anyone else. The second encounter in the Bazaar is with Tananda. Tananda is a Trollop from Trollia. Shes strikingly beautiful with green hair, cats eyes, and curves in all the right places. Shes also a former assassin and con artist working with a pack of ruffians to shake down tourists in the Bazaar. Unfortunately for Skeeve hes been chosen as their next target, and although things dont go quite as planned (Skeeve actually manages to beat back the ruffians using magic and his dragon Gleep), all works out in the end as Tananda and Aahz are old buddies. Aahz has found the solution to their Isstvan problem in the Bazaar and the three of them, four with the dragon Gleep, go back to Klah to confront the insane master magician.

Back on Klah they add Quigley, the demon hunter, to their troupe and move on to the inn that Isstvan is using as his base of operations. The five would-be heroes, seven including Gleep and Quigleys war unicorn Buttercup, confront Isstvan and even manage to defeat him, though not as one might suspect. The group attacks Isstvan but to no avail as his power is too great for any of them to overcome. Confronted with defeat Aahz asks Isstvan to join him in a drink and so Aahz, Isstvan, Frumple, and the Imp assassins all drink a toast to Isstvans success. That is when Aahz explains that Isstvan has in fact lost. The wine they all drank was laced with a magic joke powder that Aahz got back on Deva. This powder, when ingested or inhaled as its burned, robs the victim of their magical abilities. Although its only temporary - lasting about 100 years.

The defeated Isstvan and his now powerless allies leave Klah for greener pastures using a D-Hopper, a device that allows the user(s) to hop between dimensions. Tananda and Quigley leave too, Tananda because she feels its time to move on and Quigley the demon hunter because he wants to learn more about the demons hes been hunting and the world of magic as well. Skeeve and Aahz remain at the Inn, and Aahz begins teaching his new apprentice more of the mastery of Magic.

Characters

Skeeve: Apprentice to the magician Garkin and a wannabe thief. He becomes the apprentice to the demon Aahz after his original master (Garkin) is killed by an Imp Assassin known as Throckwoddle.

Aahz: A master magician from the dimension Perv who lost his powers after Garkin summoned him into his shack on the dimension of Klah. It turns out that during the summoning ritual Aahz inhaled the smoke from Garkins brazier which was filled with magic joke powder. The joke powder is a novelty item that prevents anyone who ingests it or inhales any smoke produced in its combustion from using magic for Only for a century.[1] Aahz takes Skeeve on as his apprentice and begins teachings him magic.

Tananda: Former professional assassin who targeted Skeeve for a con before realizing he had no money at all. A friend of Aahzs, Tananda is an alluring and curvaceous beauty with green hair, cat like eyes, and a tendency to dress in revealing clothes.

Frumple: A Deveel merchant who has been banned from his home dimension of Deva for reasons unknown. Goes by the alias of Abdul the rug dealer in the town of Twixt in the dimension of Klah. Eventually he teams up with Isstvan to defeat Aahz and Skeeve.

Quigley: A gullible, but successful, demon-hunter who encounters Aahz and Skeeve as they are trying to avoid the Imp assassins on their trail. He is easily duped out of his magic sword and most of his money by Aahz. He eventually joins them in their fight against Isstvan.

Isstvan: An exceedingly powerful master magician who plans to conquer all of the dimensions starting with Klah. Although he looks and acts like a cheerful old innkeeper, he in fact is extremely evil, quite unstable, very sadistic and totally insane.

Gleep: The baby dragon that Skeeve was forced to purchase at the Bazaar after the former ate his sleeve and bonded to him. Has a one word vocabulary of Gleep, thus the name.

Brockhurst and Higgens: Two Imp assassins who accompanied Throckwoddle as his backup on the mission to assassinate Garkin. Theyre both rather gullible and neither one seems too bright, thought Brockhurst does appear to be the smarter of the two. Like all Imps theyre snappy dressers.

Garkin - Skeeves first mentor and Aahzs old drinking buddy. He likes to play practical jokes the last of his made Aahz lose his powers for a century.

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