Введение
Фэнтезийный цикл Роберта Асприна MythAdventures или Myth Adventures — это фантастический цикл, созданный Робертом Линном Асприном. После двенадцати романов Асприна, опубликованных с 1978 по 2002 год, он и Джоди Линн Най продолжили серию еще семью книгами, написанными ими совместно. После его смерти в мае 2008 года Най продолжила цикл самостоятельно. Первая книга была рекламирована под названием Another Fine Mess, от часто употребляемой фразы Оливера Харди, обращенной к его партнеру по комедийным фильмам Стэну Лорелу, якобы: «Это еще один прекрасный беспорядок, в который ты меня втянул». (Фактическая фраза звучала как «еще один милый беспорядок»). После того, как было слишком поздно менять каталог, Асприн решил, что использование слова «Myth» будет гораздо лучше, если книга станет серией. Они изменили название и заявили об опечатке в каталоге. По словам Асприна, первоначальным вдохновением для Myth Adventures послужила серия комедийных фильмов «Дорога к…», в которой Бинг Кросби и Боб Хоуп играли роль бродячих мошенников и авантюристов. Главный город — Блут, известные личности — Вильгельм Диспетчер, и Драхцир и Иднью: Писатели-Вороты, супружеская пара оборотней (отсылка к Венди и Ричарду Пини). Небольшое количество силовых линий ограничивает магию здесь, а чужаки воспринимаются старшими вампирами как ужасные монстры. У дома Скива в Базаре есть задняя дверь, ведущая в Лимб. (Кровь, Лимб)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Jahk: Гуманоидное измерение, где средний житель либо невысокий и тучный, либо чрезвычайно худой. Каждый год проводится Большая Игра, чтобы определить, является ли Вейгус или Та Хоу столицей измерения. Игроки — практически другой вид, чрезвычайно мускулистые и крупные. Победитель Большой Игры обычно получал Трофей, но теперь отвратительная вещь находится во владении Аахза, после того как команда, основанная Скивом, «Демоны», выиграла его в трехсторонней схватке. После победы и последующей конфискации Трофея (и вместе с ним метода выбора столицы Джаха) был создан Общий совет для управления измерением. («Джок», «Вегас», «Тахо»)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Avis: Измерение, населенное разумными птицами. Нет интересных мест. Не посещайте Эйвис, если не умеете летать и не любите ползающих существ в пищу. (Латинское слово «птица». Танда также упоминает Rentals, что ставит Скива в тупик, это отсылка к системе Avis Rent a Car.)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Gastropo: Измерение, населенное существами, похожими на улиток. Предпочтительным способом передвижения является ходьба, хотя на преодоление даже одного квартала уходят часы. Не рекомендуется посещать. Как выразилась бы Тананда, у них нет груза, но много es cargo(t). (В биологической классификации улитки относятся к гастроподам. «Escargot» — французское слово для «улитка»; буква «t» не произносится, поэтому рифмуется с «cargo».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Arcadia: Приятное измерение, «контролируемое» трудолюбивым «благодетелем» по имени Хус. Очевидно, населенное людьми, которых он вытащил из трудных ситуаций, подразумевается, что за кулисами Хус во многом ответственен за то, что они оказались в ситуациях, из которых были так благодарны за спасение. (Аркадия, поэтический синоним идиллического видения нетронутой дикой природы.)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Kow Tow: Чрезвычайно отдаленное измерение, которое поверхностно напоминает американский «Дикий Запад», но на самом деле является местом разведения людей, чтобы вампирские коровы могли пить их кровь. Содержит огромный узел магических силовых линий.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Scamaroni: Измерение с расой, ориентированной на обоняние, которая имеет репутацию состоящей из легковерных людей. («Scam» = мошенничество.)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Kobol: Измерение энтузиастов технологий. («COBOL», и, возможно, также «кобольд».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Ronko: Измерение, наполненное телевизорами и рекламой. («Ronco»)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Wuh: Сельское измерение, населенное трусливыми, овцеподобными шопоголиками, называемыми Вухсами. («Wuss».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Sear: Мрачная пустынная область, населенная крошечными существами, живущими в почве. («Sear», «sere»)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Ori: Измерение, жители которого напоминают домашних кошек.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Walt: Местные жители немного похожи на смесь аистов и страусов и славятся своим танцевальным мастерством. («Вальс».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Febrile: Самая низкая температура превышает 120 °F. («Febrile» = «лихорадочный».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Molder: Темное, сырое место, где все, кажется, постоянно меняется. Даже земля под ногами кажется растущей и движущейся. («Molder».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Etc.: Одна длинная прямая дорога с идентичными зданиями по обе стороны. Населена существами, которые выглядят и одеваются одинаково. Серые костюмы, седые волосы, серое лицо, две руки. Все двигаются одновременно и в одном направлении.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Bumppp: Широкая лужайка, заросшая густой растительностью и оранжевыми цветами. Голубое небо и розовые горы. Населена крупными змееподобными существами, которые кажутся враждебными.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Mall: Оттуда пришли коллекторы, и там Скив, по-видимому, задолжал 350 000 золотых монет. Myth Taken Identity
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Ghord: От «Myth Fortunes» (Гордиев узел).
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
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Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Imper: О Импер известно немного, кроме того, что он находится рядом с Девой, и Импы были разорены финансово Девелами. С тех пор Импы пытались подражать Девелам (которых они физически напоминают), но с ограниченным успехом. Самое доброе, что кто-либо сказал об Импах, — это то, что они хорошо одеваются. («Imp».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Trollia: Родное измерение Чамли и Танды. Самцы — Тролли, а самки — Троллупы. («Troll», «trollop».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Rinasp: Измерение, которое постигла ужасная судьба, когда Танду наняли для работы по взысканию долгов. (По-видимому, перестановка слогов в слове «Asprin».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Archiah: Измерение, которое «изобрело стрельбу из лука».
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Zoorik: Родина Гномов, которые, как предполагается, являются финансовыми гениями. («Gnomes of Zürich», произносится по-английски.)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Ratislava: Чьи крысиные обитатели создали чрезвычайно мощное магическое устройство, которое затем было украдено и вывезено за пределы измерения. (Название, по крайней мере, происходит от Братиславы, Словакия.)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Mantico: Родина грозных Мантикор.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Djinger: Родина и база операций Джиннов. Джинны, как и Импы, сильно пострадали от безжалостных тактик Девелов, поэтому они начали предоставлять эмигрантский магический труд в бутылках и лампах. Самцы — Джинны, самки — Джени. («Djinn», «genie», Я мечтаю о Джинни, возможно, также «ginger».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Trofi: Измерение, в котором нет бизнесменов, вместо этого все выигрывается в конкурсах. Это также измерение, известное сватовством. Многие путешественники по измерениям хотят жену из Трофи. («Trophy», «trophy wife».)
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Cupid: Родина маленьких кукольных людей. Они выглядят как молодые Клахды, хотя на самом деле они полностью выросли.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Caf: Измерение существ, похожих на Горгон, с живыми волосами, которые заваривают лучший кофе во всех известных измерениях.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Mini: Родина крошечных, миниатюрных Миникинсов.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Tue: Родина маленьких, четырехруких Тью. Известны крошечными профессиональными рестлерами под названием Terrible Tues, танцевальной труппой под названием Tue Tours и их секретарской работой; Tue Fingered Typists.
Fantasy novel series by Robert Asprin
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Jody Lynn Nye continued the series with seven more books that they wrote together. After his death in May 2008, Nye has continued the series on her own. The first book was advertised under that title, Another Fine Mess, from Oliver Hardy's often used catchphrase directed towards his film comedy partner Stan Laurel, supposedly "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into." (The actual catchphrase referred to "another nice mess".) After it was too late to change the catalog, Asprin decided that using "Myth" would be much better if the book would become a series. They changed the title and claimed a typo in the catalog. According to Asprin, the original inspiration for the Myth Adventures was the Road to comedy movie series, which stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as wandering con artists/adventurers. Chief city is Blut, notable people are Vilhelm the Dispatcher, and Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves (homages to Wendy and Richard Pini). The low amount of force lines limit magik here, and offworlders are viewed as terrifying monsters by the older vampires. Skeeve's house in the Bazaar has a back door which opens into Limbo. (Blood, Limbo)
Jahk: Humanoid dimension where the average inhabitants are either short and obese or extremely thin. Every year, the Big Game is played to determine whether Veygus or Ta Hoe is the capital of the dimension. Players are practically another species, extremely muscled and large. The winner of the Big Game used to claim the Trophy, but the hideous thing is now in the possession of Aahz, after the Skeeve founded team "The Demons" won it in a three way brawl. Following their victory and subsequent confiscation of the Trophy (and with it Jahk's method of selecting their capital) a Common Council was put together to rule the dimension. ("Jock", "Vegas", "Tahoe")
Avis: Dimension full of sentient birds. No areas of interest. Do not visit Avis unless you can fly and you like foods of the crawly variety. (Latin for "bird". Tanda also makes references to Rentals, which mystifies Skeeve, this comes from the Avis Rent a Car System.) Gastropo: A dimension full of snail like inhabitants. The preferred mode of transport is walking, although that takes hours just to move a block. Unadvisable to visit. As Tananda would put it, they have no cargo but plenty of es cargo(t). (In biological categorization, snails are gastropods. "Escargot" is French for "snail"; the "t" is silent, so it rhymes with "cargo".) Arcadia: A pleasant dimension "controlled" by a hard working "philanthropist" named Hoos. Apparently populated by people that he's bailed out of tight situations, it's implied that behind the scenes Hoos was largely responsible for putting them in the situations they were so grateful for having been rescued from. (Arcadia, a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.) Kow Tow: An extremely remote dimension that superficially resembles the American "Wild West", but is actually a breeding ground for humans so that the vampire cows can suck their blood. Contains a huge nexus of magic force lines. Scamaroni: A dimension with a smell oriented race that has a reputation for being made up of suckers. ("Scam" = con game.) Kobol: A dimension of technology enthusiasts. ("COBOL", and possibly also "kobold".) Ronko: A dimension filled with televisions and advertising. ("Ronco")
Wuh: Rural dimension that is home to cowardly, sheep like shopaholics called Wuhses. ("Wuss".) Sear: A bleak desert dimension inhabited by tiny soil dwelling critters. ("Sear", "sere")
Ori: A dimension whose inhabitants resemble house cats. Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess. ("waltz")
Febrile: Coolest temperature is over 120 °F. ("Febrile"= "feverish")
Molder: A dark, damp place where everything always seems to be changing. Even the ground seems to grow and move under your feet. ("Molder")
Etc. : One long, straight road with identical buildings on both sides. Inhabited by creatures that look and dress identical. Gray suits, gray hair, gray face, two arms. All move at the identical time and in the same direction. Bumppp: Wide meadow filled with thick plants and orange flowers. blue sky and pink mountains. Inhabited by large snake creatures that appear to be hostile. Mall: Its where the Bill collectors came from, and where Skeeve apparently ran up 350,000 gold pieces in debt. Myth Taken Identity
Ghord: From "Myth Fortunes" (Gordian Knot)
Dimensions that have been mentioned but not explicitly depicted:
Imper: Not much is known about Imper except that it is close to Deva and the Imps were wiped out financially by the Deveels. The Imps have since tried to mimic the Deveels (whom they physically resemble) with only marginal success. The kindest thing anyone has said about Imps is that they are snappy dressers. ("Imp")
Trollia: Chumley and Tanda's home dimension. The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops. ("Troll", "trollop")
Rinasp: A dimension that suffered a ghastly fate when Tanda was hired to go there on a collection job. (Apparently a syllable swap of "Asprin".) Archiah: The dimension that "invented archery". Zoorik: Home of the Gnomes, who are implied to be financial wizards. ("Gnomes of Zürich", pronounced in English.) Ratislava: Whose rat inhabitants created an extremely powerful magical device that was then stolen and taken off dimension. (The name, at least, comes from Bratislava, Slovakia.) Mantico: Home of the formidable Manticore race. Djinger: Home and base of operations for the Djinns. The Djinns, like the Imps, were hit hard by the cut throat tactics of the Deveels, so they started providing emigrant magickal labor in bottles and lamps. Males are Djinns, females are Djeanies. ("Djinn", "genie", I Dream of Jeannie, probably also "ginger")
Trofi: A dimension that has no businessmen, instead, everything is won in contests. It is also the dimension known for matchmaking. Many dimension travelers want a Trofi wife. ("Trophy", "trophy wife")
Cupid: Home of small doll like people. They appear as young Klahds, when they are actually fully grown. Caf: A dimension of Gorgon ish creatures with living hair that brew the best coffee in all the known dimensions. Mini: Home to the tiny, diminutive Minikins. Tue: Home to the small, four armed Tues. Known for tiny professional wrestlers called Terrible Tues, a dance troup called the Tue Tours, and their secretarial work; Tue Fingered Typists.
Рассказы
В 2010 году издательство Baen Books опубликовало сборник коротких мифологических рассказов Асприна под названием «Интерпретации мифов». В этот сборник вошли рассказы и повести, действие которых происходит во множестве миров, созданных Робертом Асприном. Он рекламируется как содержащий все короткие произведения о Мифе.
In 2010, Baen Books published a collection of Asprin's short myth stories under the title Myth Interpretations. This collection contains short stories and short novels taking place in many worlds that Robert Asprin created. It is advertised as containing all of the Myth short fiction.
Иллюстрированные романы
Первый роман был адаптирован в восьмичастную серию комиксов WaRP Graphics в середине 1980-х годов. Иллюстрированная и значительно переработанная Филом Фоглио, серия позже была собрана в два полноцветных графических романа, изданных Starblaze Graphics, а в 2007 году Airship Entertainment (издательская компания Фоглио) переиздала материал в одном томе. За этим последовали еще четыре выпуска, содержащие оригинальную историю Асприна и художника Джима Валентино, которая стремится связать события между первым и вторым романами серии. (Apple Comics взяла на себя вторую серию на полпути.) В 2010 году Airship Entertainment начала переиздавать историю в формате веб-комикса. Однако он был отключен где-то в феврале 2016 года, вместе с веб-публикациями комиксов "Бак Годот" и "Что нового с Филом и Дикси", когда старый сайт Airship Entertainment вышел из строя. Второй роман позже был адаптирован в еще одну восьмичастную серию комиксов Кеном и Бет Митчрони и опубликован Apple с 1987 по 1989 год. Ни одна из этих двух более поздних серий не получила сборника графических романов. Фоглио также создал обложки и сопроводительные иллюстрации для первых изданий большинства романов. До того, как он начал делать иллюстрации для обложек, Келли Фриас оформлял обложки первых изданий самых ранних книг серии.
The first novel was adapted into an eight part WaRP Graphics comic book series in the mid 1980s. Illustrated and heavily rewritten by Phil Foglio, the series was later collected into two full color graphic novels published by Starblaze Graphics, and in 2007 Airship Entertainment (the Foglios' publishing concern) reprinted the material in a single volume. Four more issues followed, featuring an original story by Asprin and artist Jim Valentino which attempts to bridge the action between the first and second novels in the series. (Apple Comics took over the second series halfway through.) In 2010, Airship Entertainment began re releasing the story as a web comic. Though this has been offline since sometime in February 2016, along with webcomic republications of Buck Godot and What's New with Phil & Dixie, when Airship Entertainment's old website broke down. The second novel was later adapted into another eight part comic series by Ken and Beth Mitchroney and published by Apple from 1987 through 1989. Neither of these two later series enjoyed a graphic novel collection. Foglio has also done the cover art and accompanying illustrations for the first editions of most of the novels. Before he started the cover illustrations, Kelly Freas did the covers of the first editions of the earliest books of the series.
Кино и театр
В 1980-х годах ходили кратковременные слухи о том, что Венди и Ричард Пини, владельцы WaRP Graphics, рассматривали возможность экранизации их адаптации Another Fine Myth в полнометражный фильм, после того как они сделали это со своим собственным проектом, Elfquest, хотя последний до сих пор даже не вышел за рамки концепции.
Short lived rumors circulated in the 1980s that Wendy and Richard Pini, owners of WaRP Graphics, were considering turning their adaptation of Another Fine Myth into a feature length movie after doing so with their own property, Elfquest, though the latter has yet to even make it past concept to this day.
Настольная игра
Настольная игра под названием Myth Fortunes была разработана компанией Mayfair Games и продана в 1990 году.
A board game called Myth Fortunes was developed by Mayfair Games and sold in 1990.