Conan the Usurper
by Robert E. Howard 
, L. Sprague de Camp
Conan Series (7), Conan - Sphere chronological (8), Conan-Saga (15)
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Conan, the mighty barbarian from the time before the world began, battles deadly magic, murderous demons and incredible monsters as he cuts his bloody swath through the Hyborian Age.Tags
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kroseman Pre-Conan Howard...protagonist Cormac Fitzgeoffrey foreshadows Conan. Sword without sorcery.
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No one can write Conan like Robert E. Howard can, but De Camp does a pretty good job with his contributions to this collecion of four tales.
First read this when I was about 12 or 13. Returned to is a second time when in my early twenties and a third time in my late thirties.
First read this when I was about 12 or 13. Returned to is a second time when in my early twenties and a third time in my late thirties.
Stories from the later stages of the Cimmerian's career. De Camp's work is obvious by its higher quality.
L. Sprague de Camp: El tesoro de Tranicos; L. Sprague de Camp y Robert E, Howard: Lobos más allá de la frontera; Robert E. Howard: El fénix en la espada; Robert E. Howard: La ciudadela escarlata.
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Robert E. Howard was born in Peaster, Texas on January 22, 1906. At the beginning of his writing career, he primarily wrote pulp fiction and had numerous stories published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales including Spear and Fang, The Hyena, Wolfshead, Red Shadows, and The Shadow Kingdom. He created the character of Conan the Barbarian in the show more pages of Weird Tales. By 1936, almost all of his fiction writing was in the western genre and his first novel, A Gent from Bear Creek, was about to be published. He committed suicide on June 11, 1936 at the age of 30. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Conan - Sphere (7)
Lancer/Ace Conan (8)
Drakar & Demoner (34)
Zwarte Beertjes (1817)
Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy (06/3263)
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Conan the Usurper
- Original title
- Conan the Usurper
- Original publication date
- 1932-33 (magazine) (magazine); 1967 (collection) (collection)
- People/Characters
- Conan (of Cimmeria)
- Important places
- Aquilonia
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.087662
- Disambiguation notice*
- Collection
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fantasy, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 813.087662 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Fantasy Sword and Sorcery
- LCC
- PS3515 .O89 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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- 7 — Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 23
- ASINs
- 23
