“He became quite a significant figure on the fan scene. Bob was probably the most brilliant person for seating people at his table in the bar and hosting it for hours and hours, and everyone was entertained.”
Asprin owed much of his success to the network of fans and colleagues he cultivated over years of attending science fiction conventions. “He took all of the money he’d made from the, and he went to anywhere from 15-25 conventions a year, for five or six years,” Fawcett says. “He held court and entertained everybody, and became so well known that people were just out buying his books.”
After years as a prolific author and editor, Asprin’s output slowed in the ’90s due to an array of personal and financial problems. Fawcett says that Asprin’s fiction reflected the full range of his complicated personality. “Humor doesn’t work without pathos, and it doesn’t work without emotional depth, because then it’s slapstick,” Fawcett says. “And Bob wrote humor, and it came from him.
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