by Robert Lynn Asprin
With Thieves' World Asprin and company invented the shared-world anthology. Some day the world may be able to forgive them for that.
I stumbled across the first volume of the Thieves' World anthology series shortly after it came out, and being a die-hard, ultimately I bought and read all 12 of the collections (and most of the novels), but after about vol. 6 it was more a labor of stamina and obligation than one of love. The town...