Conan 02 Of Cimmeria (Conan Series) [Paperback]

Robert Howard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1990 | Series: Conan Series

Conan is in for the fight of his life when he chooses the wrong ship on which to travel and faces a horde of enemies determined to destroy him. Reissue.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace (February 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441114539
• ISBN-13: 978-0441114535
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #808,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

(1906-1936) Robert Erwin Howard was born and rasied in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the age of fifteen. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definite improvement over the first volume..., July 15, 2000

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Nathan (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conan 02 Of Cimmeria (Conan Series) (Paperback)

The stories in Conan of Cimmeria surpass in content and in language the stories in the first Conan book.

The Curse of the Monolith, by de Camp & Carter, is an okay political story, but the action is kind of weak. A fun little read.

The Bloodstained God, by Howard & de Camp, is the most boring story in this volume. I found it overlong and almost unreadably bad. Not sure why, but I just couldn't stand it.

The Frost Giant's Daughter, I think, is generally considered to be one of the best Conan stories, and I agree. Short and to the point, this story isn't about Conan, the story is Conan.

The Lair of the Ice Worm, by de Camp and Carter, is another fairly good story that doesn't have any relevance in the grand scheme of things, but it's fun and entertaining.

Queen of the Black Coast, by Howard, is another excellent story, dripping with Howard's wonderfully readable style. The heroine here is in no small part the inspiration for Valeria in the first Conan movie.

The Vale of Lost Women, by Howard, is another really good story that really gets into who and what Conan is, not just about one of his feats.

The Castle of Terror, while more entertaining than Bloodstained God, is so stupidly pointless that I wonder why it was written, much less put in here. You're not missing anything if you skip this one.

The Snout in the Dark, while being an improvement of Castle of Terror and Bloodstained God, doesn't reveal anything new about Conan, isn't terribly exciting, but it's still an interesting read.

This book is, again, superior to the first in the series...highly recommended.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars People Are Way Too Harsh on De Camp & Carter, August 20, 2001

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Tsuruoka "tsuruoka" (Columbia, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conan 02 Of Cimmeria (Conan Series) (Paperback)

This is less of a review of this particular volume in the Conan opus as edited & added to by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter than it is a response to the thrashing that the abovementioned writers have been taking in this forum and in many others. It's true that no one can write Conan the way Robert E. Howard could. I'm not convinced anyone has ever really tried. Some of the work de Camp & Carter did with Howard's material is cheesy. Remember - most of their pastiches were written to fill gaps in the timeline. Many of them were written from Howard fragments. It's also true that Karl Edward Wagner did a much better job presenting Howard's writing when he was manning the Conan fort. Wagner's Conan books are now quite expensive and pretty hard to get a hold of. My own introduction to Conan came in the 1980's, through a combination of Marvel Comics and the Ace reprints of the de Camp & Carter editions of the old Lancer paperbacks. Had it not been for the work of de Camp and Carter I might NEVER have discovered any of the works of Robert E. Howard. For that, I am - and I suspect that a lot of readers my age should be - eternally grateful to them. As to CONAN OF CIMMERIA, this is one of the best of the de Camp & Carter editions. The pastiche pieces are readable and the pure Howard is mostly unadulterated. "Queen of the Black Coast" is one of Howard's finest stories. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Conan of Cimeria, February 11, 2004

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ray "scififan" (Merseyside United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conan 02 Of Cimmeria (Conan Series) (Paperback)

I started reading Conan novels at the age of fourteen. I was wakened to sword and sorcery for life. Even though a few - more than a few - have attempted to emulate Robert E Howard,s style, no one seems to have got it quite the way Howard did.
There is and only ever will be one Robert E howard. --And -I might add- only one artist true enough to fill the cover of howards books --Frank Frazetta. Their works are the embodiment of fantasy.