Thieves' World®

Thieves' World®, Book 1

By: Robert Lynn Asprin - editor, Lynn Abbey - editor

Narrated by: Jonathan Johns

Missing Game of Thrones? Dare to "be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again" (Book Riot).

A classic series for a new generation of fantasy adventure fans, Thieves' World® paved the way for the shared-world anthology tradition with epic worldbuilding, unforgettable characters, and nonstop action thanks to the legendary authors who contribute to it.

The series' groundbreaking debut features stories by John Brunner, Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Andrew J. Offutt, Robert Lynn Asprin, Joe Haldeman, Christine DeWees, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, who populate the lawless city of Sanctuary with orphans and wizards, fortune tellers and emperors, merchants and madams, spies, assassins, and, of course, thieves.

©1979 Robert Lynn Asprin (P)2023 Tantor

Before Game of Thornes

These stories, written by multiple authors well known in the genre, are amazing tales that are seem tailor made for a big anthology tv series and it's a wonder they haven't been adapted previously... sex, murder, acts of valor, castle intrigue, demons and djinns, wizards and wars... all here and feel as fresh today as they did when I read them in high school.

Great stories, terrible voice acting.

This is one of the best series of the genre. But this guy reading sounds like A.I.
He does not seem to understand punctuation and how it relates to reading out loud. He pauses when he shouldn't and then runs on the sentence like it's the beginning of a new one, or just the opposite. He will not pause when he should and starts a whole new sentence without any change in voice inflection.
Other than that, great fun!

Amazing

I was a little put off at first by the narrator, but after a few stories I was hooked. This series is amazing, highly recommended.

One of the truly great classics-bad narrator

Like apparently many others, I have been looking forward to the Audiobook version of this series seemingly forever and, despite what I am about mention about the narration, if you have never read these and are thinking about getting them, do so. They are a great classic series and outstanding stories - The narration however.........
I will skip repeating the criticisms in the other reviews I just read - all true, unfortunately. What I will mention (in the hope the publisher and narrator read this and make some positive change) is that, what will bother you the most, is how often he mispronounces words. I am not talking just about proper nouns, which he does constantly get very obviously wrong (Ilsigi and wriggly rhyme - that's the joke - get it?) but can just as obviously be argued on forever but, basic English (and no it is not just a difference between "The King's English" and American). He gets common words wrong constantly. The problem is so pervasive you have to just ignore it but, if you can, you will enjoy the book.
If the narrator would just get someone to properly edit his performance and practice his pronunciation (a lot), perhaps the future releases, which he is apparently contracted to do, will be truly enjoyable.

sanctuary

I love this story...stories, group of stories. the overall performance was good..at times his voices weren't clear, but I loved the book anyway