Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Series Is Joyous Dad-Joke Fantasy
Robert Asprin's rollicking Myth Adventures books get their laughs from whimsy, lightheartedness, buddy-movie banter, and, um, comic myth-understandings. They're a welcome antidote to grimmer series.
by Jason Heller
Aug 16, 2019
3 minutes
Ever since George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series stole our hearts, minds, and television screens, fantasy literature has gained a reputation for being so grim and dark that there's a whole subgenre of it called, unimaginatively, grimdark. But it was not always thus. Granted, in the '70s and '80s, fantasy contained plenty of proto-grimdark works, most notably Stephen R. Donaldson's and Roger Zelazny's Amber books. But that period was also a golden age for humorous fantasy novels, works that skewered the, Craig Shaw Gardner's , and Robert Asprin's rollicking .
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