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Conan the Avenger

85.7% complete
1968
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Conan (Fictitious character) - Fiction
See 14
The Return of Conan
Prologue
1 - Wings of Darkness
2 - The Ring of Rakhamon
3 - Vengeance from the Desert
4 - The Palace on the Cliff
5 - The Sea of Blood
6 - Treason in the East
7 - The Demon of the Snows
8 - The Dragon of Khitai
9 - The Dance of the Lions
10 - The Lair of the Sorcerer
Epilogue
The Hyborian Age, Part 2
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A series of books about Conan the Cimmerian written by Robert E Howard, L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.  This is the core series of books which are all from or based on stories or notes by Robert E Howard.

1) Conan
2) Conan of Cimmeria
3) Conan the Freebooter
4) Conan the Wanderer
5) Conan the Adventurer
6) Conan the Buccaneer
7) Conan the Warrior
8) Conan the Usurper
9) Conan the Conqueror
10) Conan the Avenger
11) Conan of Aquilonia
12) Conan of the Isles
Copyright © 1968 by L. Sprague de Camp
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The chamber was murky.
May contain spoilers
The origins of other races of the modern world may be similarly traced; in almost every case, older by far than they realize, their history stretches back into the mists of the forgotten Hyborian Age....
Comments may contain spoilers
Chapters 2 to 5 inclusive of The Return of Conan by Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp were first published as a novella, Conan the Victorious, in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, for September, 1957; copyright © 1957 by King-Size Publications, Inc.  The entire novel was then published as The Return of Conan, N.Y.: Gnome Press, Inc.; copyright © 1957 by Gnome Press.

The Hyborian Age, Part 2, by Robert E. Howard, was originally published in the booklet, The Hyborian Age, by the Los Angeles-New York Cooperative Publications, 1938; and in Skull-Face and Others, by Robert E. Howard, Saul City, Wis.: Arkham House, 1946.
Extract (may contain spoilers)
The sun glinted on spired helmets and whetted spearheads.  Spurs jingled and bright silks flashed as three armored riders breasted the long slope of a great sand dune in the wide desert that formed the southwestern marches of Turan.  Red turbans were wound about their helmets; sashes of the same color girdled their waists.  White silken shirts, baggy trousers thrust into short black boots, and sleeveless, silvered mail shirts completed their apparel.  Curved swords hung at their hips.  Upright from the holders that hung from the saddles of two of them rose the ten-foot Turanian lances.  The remaning one bore, slung from his saddle, a thick, double-curved bow in a bow case and a score and a half of arrows in a lacquered leathern quiver.

Accompanying them was a fourth figure, bound by both wrists to a rope held by the bowman.  Deep gashes in the sand told of this prisoner's inability to keep up with his mounted captors.  He wore the white khalat of the desert Zuagir, though the garment was dirty and torn to shreds.  His lean, dark visage was hollow-cheeked, but implacable hatred lurked in his red-rimmed eyes.  He stumbled panting up the slope without a sound of pain or protest.

The Turanian soldiers, separated from the rest of their troop by a two-day sandstorm, were seeking their way back to Fort Wakla, a Turanian outpost deep in the Zuagir desert country.  Yesterday they had met the Zuagir.  His horse had tumbled under him with an arrow through its heart, and he had been led senseless on the sand by a blow from a spear butt.  The commander of Fort Wakla had lately begun an intense campaign against the desert tribes, who had harried Kuranian caravans overly much of late.  Having taken the Zuagir prisoner, the horsemen were bringing him back to the fort to be bled of knowledge before being hanged.

At the top of the dune, the little troop paused to rest.  Waterskins were lifted to parched mouths, while the ragged prisoner crawled up on all fours, almost done in.  Sand dunes stretched as far as the eye could see.  As practiced warriors, the Turanians used the pause to let their hawklike eyes sweep the horizon and the surface of the sands.  Nothing could be seen save endless, rolling yellow plain.

The tallest of the three, the man with the bow and the prisoner's rope, suddenly stiffened.  Shading his dark eyes, he bent forward to get a better view.  On the top of a dune a mile away, he had sighted a lone horseman riding at a gallop.  The dune had hidden him as they came to their point of vantage, but now the stranger was flying down the near side in a flurry of sand.  The leader turned to his fellows.

"By the alabaster hips of Yenagra!" he said, "we have caught another desert rat!  Be ready; we will kill this one and take his head on a lance tip back to the fort."

 

Added: 30-Jul-2019
Last Updated: 28-Sep-2024

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 01-May-1977
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-May-1977
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.95
Pages*:
192
Catalog ID:
11680-9
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   2 Dec 2020 - 16 Dec 2020
Internal ID:
13142
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-441-11680-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-441-11680-5
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Frank Frazetta  - Cover Artist
CONAN
THE AVENGER


Peace had reigned in Aquilonia, but when his beloved Queen Zenobia is stolen before his very eyes, Conan, the great barbarian king, cannot rest until he saves her.  And so the most stupendous hero of fantasy-adventure returns to the battlefield, matching his savage strength against the most monstrous forces of evil and doom.

A triumphant epic of swords and sorcery with... "a vividness, a color, a dreamdust sparkle...." - DAMON KNIGHT

PLUS ROBERT E. HOWARD'S COMPLETION OF
THE HISTORY OF THE HYBORIAN AGE
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01-May-1977
Ace
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 L Sprague de Camp
Birth: 27 Nov 1907 New York City, New York, USA
Death: 06 Nov 2000 Plano, Texas, USA


 Robert E Howard
Birth: 22 Jan 1906 Peaster, Texas, USA
Death: 11 Jun 1936


 Björn Nyberg
Birth: 11 Sep 1929 Stockholm, Sweden
Death: 16 Nov 2004

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