Robert Lynn Asprin

Skeeve was a magician's apprentice—until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, he's on a quest to get even.

Another Fine Myth - Skeeve's master is murdered, and now this apprentice magician must deal with Aahz, a powerless demon summoned by the old magician as a joke. Myth Conceptions - Skeeve auditions for court magician of Rodrick and, unfortunately, gets the job.

A low-stakes con artist and killer poker player, Griffen McCandles drifted through college, always taking for granted that there’d be a family job waiting for him after he graduated. He just never suspected what his family was… His mysterious uncle drops the bomb: Griffen and his sister, Valerie, are dragons—and almost purebred ones to boot. Unwilling to let Uncle Mal take him under his wing, so to speak, Griffen heads to New Orleans with Valerie to make a living the only way he knows how. And even the criminal underworld of the French Quarter will heat up when Griffen lands in town… (from Amazon description)

Wenn dir das Leben einen Dämon gibt, mach einen Mentor daraus. Skeeve ist ein eher unwilliger Lehrling der Magie. Er sieht einfach zu wenige konkrete Anwendungspunkte für seine wahre Berufung als Dieb. Empört über diese mangelnde Begeisterung beschwört sein Meister einen leibhaftigen Dämon, um Skeeve von den beeindruckenden Mächten der Magie zu überzeugen. Leider tötet der Armbrustbolzen eines Assassinen Skeeves Meister genau in dem Moment, in dem sich der Dämon materialisiert - und der schreckliche Aahz ist frei. Skeeve bleibt nur eine Möglichkeit: Der Dämon muss sein neuer Mentor werden!

When the king decides to go on vacation, he orders Skeeve, a bumbling apprentice sorcerer, to take his place, marry his homicidal fiancée, and deal with the Mob's fairy godfather. Reprint.

Skeeve, a young magician, and Aahz, his demon teacher, face the prospect of going out of business when their enemies hire the Axe, a top character assassin. Reissue.

As Court Magician to Rodrick the Fifth of Possiltum, Skeeve must oppose the universe's mightiest invading army, but he is not sure how, and his mentor, Aahz, who lost his sorcerer's power, cannot help.

The Trophy is the ugliest object Skeeve has ever seen. As Court Magician he has seen a thing or three. Luscious green Tanda wants the Trophy for demon Aahz's birthday present. But she floats asleep, hostage. Inhabitants are weakly, look easy to beat. But players bred stronger over generations. Ta-hoe vs Veygus vs Skeeve's team. Who will win the Game and the Trophy?

Guido and Nunzio may not be the brightest bodyguards in the world - but they certainly are faithful. When Skeeve "the Great" asks them to join the army of Possiltum, the two thugs volunteer without question... Except: Whose side are they on? Queen Hemlock's? The Mob's Fairy Godfather's? Skeeve's? The two baffled bodyguards barely have time to figure it all out - they've been handed government-issue crossbows, armored with leather skirts, and given combat orders by the dreaded drill sergeant Smiley! With war heroes like these...who needs enemies?

As the "Myth Adventures" continue, Skeeve is now reluctant president of the corporation of work-for-hire magicians, that includes a pet dragon and an artistic vampire. Reissue.

Shares the humorous adventures of the Great Skeeve, a powerful magician, Aahz, his demon partner, and Gleep the dragon in Deva, the crossroads of dimensions. Reissue.

Skeeve, head of a group of magik consultants, goes into Perv, one of the most hostile of the known dimensions in the galaxy, to find his cohort, Aahz, not knowing that the weapon he has brought with him, a Djin in a bottle, has only reduced powers to help him.

Readers can take a rollicking ride through the crazy MYTH universe along with Skeeve, Aahz, Massha, Tananda, Bunny, Gleep, and the Fairy Godmother, in this collection that features the authors' favorite stories, as well as some never-before-published myth-adventures. Reprint.

In the novel that started all the phulishness, meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company—a handful of military rejects able to do more damage before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule and his soldiers to a distant planet. But now, the aliens have chosen a new target of war . . . Phule's Company.

In a galaxy-spanning struggle of epic proportion, the L'vrai, a race of highly evolved lizards, clash with a formidable coalition of brutal insect tribes in a battle to the death

They all play the part of hero, they are all-powerful on a stage that is ruled by the one that you talk to - or the one you believe... Thieves' World is what resulted when the world's top science-fiction and fantasy writers got together to create the amazing new world of Sanctuary, where you mix and mingle with Lythal the Star-browed: his magic is questionable, his sword-play is not. Jubal: ex-gladiator and slave, now a respected citizen (he made his money selling slaves). One Thumb: the crooked bartender at the Vulgar Unicorn ...and even more fantastic characters! Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Robert Asprin, John Brunner, Joe Haldeman and Andrew J Offutt have dreamed up a world of wonders - a fabulous reading adventure! Contents: * Introduction - Robert Asprin * Sentences of Death - John Brunner * The Face of Chaos - Lynn Abbey * The Gate of Flying Knives - Poul Anderson * Shadowspawn - Andrew Offutt * The Price of Doing Business - Robert Asprin * Blood Brothers - Joe Haldeman * Myrtis - Christine DeWees * The Secret of the Blue Star - Marion Zimmer Bradley * The Making of Thieves' World - Robert Asprin