Myth Directions
core novel 1982 Myth Adventures
Record
| First published | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (12,929 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 224 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441555291 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
In Myth Directions, Tananda enlists Skeeve's help to find a birthday gift for his mentor Aahz, and the pair travel through dimensions to Jahk, a world divided between extremely thin and extremely overweight inhabitants, arriving amid celebrations for the city of Ta-hoe's earlier victory in a contest called the Big Game. When Tananda spots a championship trophy and decides it would make the perfect gift, an attempted theft goes wrong: the trophy vanishes, alarms sound, and Tananda is captured while Skeeve escapes. Skeeve and Aahz return to rescue her and discover that the magician holding her is Quigley, an antagonist from an earlier adventure, and that the two cities of Ta-hoe and Veygus are quietly preparing for a war over the very game whose trophy Tananda tried to steal.
Where it sits
- Universe: Myth Adventures
- Series: Myth Adventures core; position 3 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robert Lynn Asprin
Notes
- From the series record (Myth Adventures): The original ten solo Robert Asprin comic-fantasy novels following the apprentice magician Skeeve, published 1978-1993.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Myth Adventures: position 3 of 10: previous Myth Conceptions (1980) · next Hit or Myth (1983)
- Internal chronology, within Myth Adventures: position 3 of 21: previous Myth Conceptions (1980) · next Hit or Myth (1983)
Sources
- Wikipedia: MythAdventures
- bookseriesinorder.com: Robert Asprin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_Directions
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