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Readers who enjoyed Conan the Avenger (Book 10) by Robert E. Howard, Björn Nyberg & L. Sprague de Camp also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Raise the Banner by A.C. Cobble
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA ranger’s duty. The rotten heart of a king. Rebellion spilled from the blood of family.Rew’s sorrow clings to him like a cape. He’s wrought death and destruction in his quest to defeat the princes, but the alternative is worse. The Mordens have ruled Vaeldon for centuries, and every generation collects its tithe in blood. It’s time for it to stop... -
Ultimate Level 1: Shattered Dreams by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMax wanted to be a [Baker].Settle down, bake stuff, and enjoy life.The gods, however, ruined that dream.Given [Baker] and a rare black skill, he is now running for his life, trying to grow strong enough to return home. Now Max must find a way to grow strong enough to survive the people and the god hunting him...Categorized as:
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Ultimate Level 1: Shattered Limits by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConsume.A rare Black skill, one decreed by the gods to never be seen again.Max is finally getting a handle on the skill, finding enjoyment in battling and striving to grow his skills and stats. His new friends don't know the whole truth, but they flee trouble together, arriving at the human capital of Peltagow...Categorized as:
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Dungeon Master's Guide by E. Gary Gygax
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhether you're running a single adventure or masterminding a complete campaign, the Dungeon Masters Guide is the absolute best source for information. There'r nop need to guess the rules. You'll learn spells, monsters, travel, magic lists, and combat rules...Categorized as:
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Eskau by J.L. Mullins
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe iron-clad reality of the world relentlessly comes for all. Arcanes, the enemies of humanity, thrive upon power harvested from broken human souls. The City Lords and Major Houses rule with unquestioned power.Tala has been seized, torn away from all that she has ever known...Categorized as:
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Nova Terra: Liberator by Seth Ring
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDespite all the advantages that came with being a Titan, for Thorn, it has come with equally Titan sized problems.Thorn has freed himself from an ancient curse and cleared up the political turmoil in the capital, but the looming threat to Northern Angoril posed by the Orc invasion of Rasyn carries him back to the Elven island. But not before he deals with a cultist infestation in his own home...Categorized as:
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The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion internationally acclaimed scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien's masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into its evolution, structure, and meaning...Categorized as:
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Law of Consequences by David Burke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne way or another the end comes for all, gods and men alike. Enemies in both the mortal realm and amongst the gods are coming out.Rob's family has come together though and will stand together against all challengers.Now it's time to show them the final law. Even gods must face the consequences of their actions and who better to showthem than the Sheriff...Categorized as:
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Way of Gods by Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime Castle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith old enemies vanquished, new heroes emerge. Sir Torsten Unger must deal with the aftermath of the Drav Cra's failed occupation of Yarrington. But with so much power up for grabs, old enemies begin to show their faces from the darker corners of the city... -
Hyperborea by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScience Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy...Categorized as:
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Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsHe who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed. An unseen enemy of immense strength has seized a Prince of the Blood, and now threatens the perfect kingdom by striking at the very core of its power - the secret knowledge of Shadow...Categorized as:
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Nova Terra: Stone King by Seth Ring
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrapped in the Abyss by the underhanded scheme of a fallen prince, Thorn and his companions are in for a long walk through the Devil infested wasteland.Hunted by corrupted Devils, Thorn’s only option for making it out alive is taking a chance on the mysterious inheritance of a long dead Elven High Mage...Categorized as:
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Tolkien: A Dictionary by David Day
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsArranged in a handy A-Z format, this book explores and explains the creatures, plats, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands...Categorized as:
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Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMidnight Sun is the companion volume to Gods in Darkness, and collects all of the Kane short stories and poetry. The Complete Stories of Kane...Categorized as:
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Gods in Darkness: The Complete Novels of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKane An immortal, cursed to wander the Earth until he is destroyed by the violence that he himself has created. A warrior and statesman: As comfortable in the shadowy halls of courtly intrigue as he is on the bloody battlefields where those intrigue's inevitably play themselves out...Categorized as:
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The Bear by R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. To everyones stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the wars scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history... -
The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWritten in the 1930s as a serial for Weird Tales, the famous pulp magazine, Hour of the Dragon is the only novel by Howard featuring his greatest creation, Conan the barbarian. This powerful novel of violent adventure has spawned many imitations in the genre over the years, including a series of best-selling paperbacks which, in imitation of Howard, continued the adventures of Conan... -
Conan the Destroyer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first in a new series of Conan reprints! Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories... -
The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3) (Weird Tales) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConan infiltrates a perilous tower in the City of Thieves in order to steal a fabled gem from an evil sorcerer. A classic of Conan lore, often cited as one of Howard's best tales...Categorized as:
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The Heroic Villain by Charles Dean
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlthough he was once the promising young CEO of a successful corporation, Lucas abandoned everything he knew and retreated from both the real world and his demanding life following a horrific accident. In order to cope with tragic loss, he began spending his time in virtual reality, lazing about in the sun and living a carefree life...Categorized as:
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Fires of Azeroth by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Gates were relics of a lost era. The Union Science Bureau surmised that they had once linked a whole network of civilizations throughout the galaxy-an empire ruled by a ruthless race known as the qhal. This qhal empire had spanned both Space and Time, for their Gates warped time, enabling qhal travelers to step from point to point across light-years unaged...Categorized as:
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Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68 33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome, 1955 53 · The Frost-Giant’s Daughter [revised from “Gods of the North”, The Fantasy Fan, Mar ’34] · Robert E...Categorized as:
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Conan: People of the Black Circle (The People Of the Black Circle; The Devil In Iron; A Witch Shall Be Born; Jewels of Gwahlur) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Phoenix on the Sword is the first volume of stories about Conan The Barbarian, perhaps Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, presenting it as it was originally written and appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously produced to the original magazine texts...Categorized as:
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The Chronicles of Corum by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIncludes the novels The Knight of the Swords, The Queen of the Swords, and The King of the Swords.The gods themselves feel fear. It is the conjunction of the Million Spheres, and all things are possible. Beneath the bloody banners of the Dog and the Bear, the cruel Mabden are sweeping the Earth. The mystic Vadhagh are wiped out-all but one... -
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Elric: Song of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe founders of modern literary fancy deserve their own place in the light. The Borealis Legends line is a tribute to the creators of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres as we know them today... -
Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFahrd and the Gray Mouser, master swordsmen, are determined to climb to the summit of Stardock, a dangerously steep mountain, in search of treasure...Categorized as:
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Conan the Warrior by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 11 · Red Nails · Robert E. Howard · na Weird Tales Jul ’36 (+2) 105 · Jewels of Gwahlur · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Mar ’35 157 · Beyond the Black River · Robert E...Categorized as:
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The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows (Volume 1) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRobert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre-and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian-Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more... -
The Dame by R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe vast road network of Honce, completed a decade before, had brought great optimism to the people of the land. Commerce could travel more freely and so could armies, and those armies, it was hoped, would rid the land at long last of the vicious, bloody cap dwarfs and goblins... -
The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne of them was a huge, brawny, full-bearded barbarian from the northlands of Nehwon. His name was Fafhrd, his weapon a broadsword. The other was a small, nimble man dressed all in gray. Men called him the Gray Mouser, and he carried both rapier and dirk. They were known throughout the city of Lankhmar as brawlers, cutpurses, and rogues...Categorized as:
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Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIntroducing Conan - heroic fantasy's mightiest adventurer from the wilds of CimmeriaThief, pirate, mercenary, warrior and general, he stands invincible - even when the full forces of the supernatural are unleashed against him... -
Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn Swords in the Mist, lean times in Lankhmar force brothers-in-arms Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser to part ways. Only after a joust of wits and swords do the friends join together again, stealing the ship the Black Treasurer and sailing round and through The Claws. Fighting sea kings, curses and seven-eyed wizards, the pair set out on their heroic wanderings through the wilds of Nehwon...Categorized as:
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The Hawk Eternal by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhile the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gatekeepers, has no idea why she has come. But he knows that heroes are needed and grants her passage into the ravaged land... -
Conan The Freebooter by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 15 · Hawks Over Shem [revised by de Camp from “Hawks Over Egypt” by R.E.H. Howard’s original version was eventually published in The Road to Azrael, Bantam 1980] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’55 54 · Black Colossus · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Jun ’33 99 · Shadows in the Moonlight · Robert E...Categorized as:
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Elric: Tales of the White Wolf by Richard Gilliam, Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsElric of Melnibone, Michael Moorcock's doomed anithrero, has become a pivotal figure in fantasy literature since his first appearance more than thirty years ago... -
Hiero's Journey by Sterling E. Lanier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPer Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath—and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death...Categorized as:
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Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConan the Barbarian is a name known throughout Cimmeria, Brythinia, Turan, and all the territories bordering the Vilayet Sea—as well as most countries more familiar to us in the real world. The character has become a multifaceted industry, as famous in our world today as he was in his own world during the Hyborian Age...Categorized as:
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The Best of Robert E. Howard: Grim Lands (Volume 2) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“[Behind Howard’s stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.” –Robert Bloch “Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”–Stephen KingThe classic pulp magazines of the early twentieth century are long gone, but their action-packed tales live on through the work of legendary storyteller Robert E. Howard...Categorized as:
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Worms of the Earth by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:"Foreward" by Robert E. Howard "The Lost Race""Men of the Shadows""Kings of the Night""A Song of the Race" (poem) "Worms of the Earth"Untitled ("A gray sky arched.. -
Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however...Categorized as:
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Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories by Leigh Brackett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of the best stories by one of fantasy and science fiction's most evocative writers, including Sea-Kings of Mars, which combines high adventure with a strongly romantic vision of an ancient, sea-girt Martian civilisation... -
Moon of Skulls by Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Moon of Skulls collects Robert E. Howard's fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from October 1929 to November 1930, plus one from Oriental Stories...Categorized as:
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Kinshield's Redemption by K.C. May
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDozens have been corrupted by tainted water from the Well of the Damned, including King Gavin Kinshield's beloved wife. He's desperate to reverse the water's effects and restore Feanna to the kind and compassionate woman he married... -
The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsStormbringer is brought Home! Elric returns to Yishana, and finds peace at last. Meanwhile, at the world's rim, dragging red horror in its wake, a horde unimaginable moves on the fabled, gentle, impossible city, Tanelorn... -
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Conan the Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsContents:9 • Introduction (Conan the Wanderer) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp13 • Black Tears • [Conan Universe] • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter46 • Shadows in Zamboula • [Conan Universe] • (1935) • novelette by Robert E. Howard85 • The Devil in Iron • [Conan Universe] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard124 • The Flame Knife • [Conan Universe] • (1955) • novella by L...Categorized as:
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Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContaining Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Dreaming City, While the Gods Laugh and The Singing Citadel this is one of the Millennium Uniform Editions of Moorcock's work, omnibus volumes with revised texts and new introductions...Categorized as:
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Conan of Aquilonia by L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMighty Conan in a fight to the death against the most dangerous fiends of the Hyborian age!Hunting the swift stag and the tusked boar in the gloomy forests of the Gunderland Marches, Conan loses his son Conn to Thoth-Amon and the supremely evil wizards of the Black Ring--and is drawn into a deadly pursuit to the very ends of the death, and a battle to the deepest levels of his endurance...Categorized as:
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Conan the Buccaneer by L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe hunt for a beautiful princess--and a king's treasure--brings Conan to the edge of the world, and the devil-ridden lands of the Nameless Isle. Awaiting him will be his fiercest battle: the cold steel of his sword against the hell-fed powers of the sorcerer Thoth-Ammon... -
Swords Against Darkness by Andrew J. Offutt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdited and introduced by Andrew J. Offutt.Contents:7 · Foreword · Andrew J. Offutt · fw 12 · Nekht Semerkeht · Robert E. Howard & Andrew J. Offutt · nv * 49 · The Tale of Hauk · Poul Anderson · nv * 80 · The Smile of Oisia · George W...Categorized as:
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Shadow Kingdoms (The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard #1) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHADOW KINGDOMS is the first volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard's work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously restored to its original magazine texts. Edited by Paul Herman. Introduction by Mark Finn. Cover by Stephen Fabian. This volume contains: Two-Gun Musketeer: Robert E...Categorized as:
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