 Over the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, Lynn Abbey) the "Thieves' World" series of shared world anthologies, credited as the first project of its type.Soon after the series hit its stride, many of the authors produced novels and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with "Beyond Sanctuary" by Janet Morris, the first "authorized" Thieves World novel, published in 1985.Janet Morris and Chris Morris went on to produce two more authorized Thieves' World "Beyond" novels and a series of related novels about their immortalized character, Tempus, and the Sacred Band of Stepsons.