Conan - Blood of the Serpent: The All-New Chronicles of the Worlds Greatest Barbarian Hero

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I get the sense it has fallen far short of a Brandon Sanderson-like sales response; I hope it’s at least moderately profitable.

The book starts with about 35 pages of exposition, and three or four times Conan thinks things that are responses to the exposition, as if the narrator is talking directly to him. That product (and the various Conan comic books) got me through the last 19 years and even though there were brief periods of withdrawal I never kicked the habit completely.It starts out slow, and Stirling tries to cover some of the bits that Howard (the original author of the Conan books, in case you're new here) only alluded to. I suspect this will be the most controversial aspect of the book for longtime Conan fans, as the most celebrated pastiche novels (i.

On that note: I hope he gets to continue with the Conan franchise, and sticks to the solo adventures. Conan's strength and courage are on full display as he faces off against powerful foes and formidable obstacles. Howard’s greatest creation was, as I understand it, Harry Turtledove’s Conan of Venarium (Tor, 2003). Born in Spain and raised in the United States, Robin Marx has lived in Japan for more than two decades.In Howard’s grim and all too realistic view, the barbarians are always at the gate, and once a culture allows itself to grow soft, decadent or simply neglectful, it will be swept away by the primitive and ruthless. The monotony of garrison life is shaken up, however, when he encounters a new addition to the band: Valeria. Conan pastiches have always had this problem; some pastiche authors seem to “get” Conan better than others, and I’d like to think that Stirling probably does – but Titan damn sure does not.