David and Chris discuss Thieves' World, edited by Robert Lynn Asprin, the 1979 shared-world anthology of short stories that launched the series of the same name, a popular subgenre, and a bestselling publishing phenomenon. This volume features a murderers' row of classic SF/F authors collaborating to create one of fantasy fiction's most memorable settings, and a sword and sorcery classic.

Featured in this volume are stories by: John Brunner, Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Andrew Offutt, Joe Haldeman, Robert Asprin, Christine DeWees, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Part one of two.

Next episode we will discuss the second half of Thieves' World, volume one: of the original fantasy shared universe, created and edited by Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey, and featuring some of the top fantasy writers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

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