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Philip José Farmer, Joe Haldeman, John Brunner, Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey: Thieves' World® (2020, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.)

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2020 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-5040-6007-3
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2 stars (1 review)

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2 stars

That was disappointing.

The concept is really cool: Get a group of authors together and have them write stories in a consistent, central world with an established setting and established rules for magic, religion, etc. Each author would write a different story with original characters, only those characters might incidentally run into characters from other authors’ stories, and they would all centre around that same internally consistent setting.

The thing is, the stories themselves just... aren’t very good. The first four or five of them dragged terribly. Then they started getting interesting, and I thought there was some hope, but after those two or three, they got bad again. I couldn’t even tell you what the last story is even about!

This book is also in need of some serious copy-editing, at least the ebook edition. I think it was originally published long before ebooks, and clearly when they converted …

Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, humorous
  • Fiction, fantasy, military
  • Fiction, fantasy, action & adventure