It's probably obvious, but Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books by Fritz Leiber are what immediately spring to mind. The Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust are close, but he's more of an assassin. Keira is a thief, though. She featured a lot in Orca.
Ah. The library has the second one of those in its catalogue, but I couldn't work from the entry how it fitted into the scheme of things. Now it makes sense :)
Don't know, M, hadn't heard of Flewelling until I made that tagmash, sorry.
One oversight of course, speaking of D&D, is Jack Vance - The Dying Earth, Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, etc. Both magic system and thieves they took from that, most likely, so there's another series for you.
Don't know, M, hadn't heard of Flewelling until I made that tagmash, sorry.
I've *heard* of her. That's it, though.
One oversight of course, speaking of D&D, is Jack Vance - The Dying Earth, Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, etc. Both magic system and thieves they took from that, most likely, so there's another series for you.
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Date: 2007-12-02 09:25 am (UTC)Um, I know of a couple but can't think of them! Grr.
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Date: 2007-12-02 11:32 am (UTC)I did read them years ago. Not sure he's what I was after (becasue I'm not sure what that is.) It might be worth having another look. Thanks.
Um, I know of a couple but can't think of them! Grr.
That was my thought :)
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Date: 2007-12-02 09:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-02 11:34 am (UTC)They don't spring immediately to hand though :\ Tricky things to find.
The Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust are close, but he's more of an assassin. Keira is a thief, though. She featured a lot in Orca.
Might be worth a look. Thanks.
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Date: 2007-12-06 12:00 pm (UTC)They were collected in the Fantasy Masterworks series (First and Second "Books of Lankhmar" IIRC) and the edition is still available about the place.
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Date: 2007-12-06 12:12 pm (UTC)Ah. The library has the second one of those in its catalogue, but I couldn't work from the entry how it fitted into the scheme of things. Now it makes sense :)
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Date: 2007-12-02 10:08 am (UTC)Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser and Robert E. Howard' Conan have thieving, but those of course are collections of stories.
Asprin's Thieves World series are shared world anthologies.
Recently, the Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott lynch, decent, but nowhere near the class of the previous 3.
Bound to be a discworld thief book by now, I'd reckon.
Don't forget the LibraryThing tagmash trick, either :-
http://www.librarything.com/tag/fantasy%2Cthieves
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Date: 2007-12-02 11:47 am (UTC)That's two votes there then ;)
Asprin's Thieves World series are shared world anthologies.
Ahh. I vaguely remeber reading the first one of those many years ago, and liking it.
Recently, the Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott lynch, decent, but nowhere near the class of the previous 3.
(looks guiltily at half-written review for ASIM). Read them.
Don't forget the LibraryThing tagmash trick, either :-
Doesn't seem to bring up anything new, other than Lynn Flewelling (any good?)
For all it's supposedly a fantasy trope, it doesn't seem that common outside of D&D.
Thanks :)
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:54 pm (UTC)One oversight of course, speaking of D&D, is Jack Vance - The Dying Earth, Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, etc. Both magic system and thieves they took from that, most likely, so there's another series for you.
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Date: 2007-12-02 09:17 pm (UTC)I've *heard* of her. That's it, though.
One oversight of course, speaking of D&D, is Jack Vance - The Dying Earth, Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, etc. Both magic system and thieves they took from that, most likely, so there's another series for you.
Ah, thanks!