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Conan the Usurper by Robert E. Howard
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Conan the Usurper

by Robert E. Howard

Series: Lancer/Ace Conan (8)

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There are four stories in this book. The Black Stranger, Wolves Beyond the Border, The Phoenix on the Sword and the Scarlet Citadel.

A tale of three brigands, that starts slow, and then rip-roars along. With multiple pirates, you know there has to be a treasure map. This time, to the Treasure of Tranicos.

Add in a mystical demon warrior, a bunch of raiding Picts, a couple of sieges, three pirates that can't trust each other, a beautiful woman, and Conan, and all hell will break loose.

4 out of 5

This is pretty much a Conanless Conan story. Conan is away fighting in Aquilonian and we follow a man in the Westmerck near the Picts as he encounters shapeshifting and beast magic.

2.5 out of 5

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King Conan is bored. Politics and statecraft and maps, and all that stuff.

In a dream, a man magically enhances his sword, and that certainly comes in handy later when the odd traitor and demon relieves the tedium of the ruling class.

3.5 out of 5

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King Conan's army of Aquilonians has been smashed by a far superior force, led by a wizard. Conan refuses to sign over his kingdom, and the wizard throws him in a dungeon.

He escapes an assassin and a monster, and rescues a wizardly rival that Tsotha had imprisoned. This wizard, please, summons a flying steed to bear Conan back to his kingdom, to take revenge.

4.5 out of 5

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  bluetyson | Jan 15, 2007 |
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Wolves Beyond the Border

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This is the eight volume of the Lancer/Ace Conan collection. It contains the following stories:

"The Treasure of Tranicos": Rewritten/revised by L. Spraque de Camp after a then-unpublished story by Robert E. Howard, a non-fantasy Oriental tale titled "The Black Stranger". This was also the name under which the Conan adaptation was first published.
"Wolves Beyond the Border": An incomplete story by Robert E. Howard which was completed by L. Spraque de Camp.
"The Phoenix on the Sword": By Robert E. Howard, 1932
"The Scarlet Citadel": By Robert E. Howard, 1933

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0722147155, Mass Market Paperback)

Fiction, Science, Fantasy, Sword, Sorcery

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400)

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