Bob Asprin, R.I.P.

[sleigh]

The news is going around the internet and various writing e-mail groups that Bob Asprin has died. I certainly knew of Bob, though I didn't know him much at all personally. However, without Bob and Thieves World, the WILD CARDS series might never have happened and a large part of my writing career and many good friends would thus be missing. For having pioneered and blazed the way for the shared world anthologies that followed, I'll always be grateful to him.

Thanks, Bob. We'll tip a glass in your memory.