Storm Season

Storm Season was the fourth Thieves' World and departs somewhat from the format of individual stories with a shared-world setting from the previous volumes. There are six stories included, all from authors and characters from prior books, and it has more of a mosaic novel feel with a single situatio......more

Another nice anthology collection in the Thieves’ World series. I am really enjoying these. This series brought me in touch with Lynn Abbey’s work, and she doesn’t disappoint. Offutt, Cherryh, Robert Asprin, and Janet Morris all have good stories in this installment. Diana Paxson also has a nice lit......more

Storm Season edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey Book Four of Thieves World Tantor audio Narrated by Jonathan Johns Many of the same authors have returned and many of the same characters continue to lead the way. The entire lot are just trying to survive another day in Sanctuary. Each story furt......more

With the main characters now fully established -more or less - we see the stories become more combined, more organized, around central events. Things are happening in the whole of the Ranken Empire, of which Sanctuary is the ass-end. Wars are brewing, trade is disrupted, and their own gods have dese......more

Storm Season was incredibly uneven. It appears that editor, Robert Asprin, is trying to drive a narrative through short stories. In doing so, he’s asking his writers to contort their narrative in ways that don’t work in the short story form. There are a couple gems in the book. Asprin’s introduction......more