Conan the Marauder

Conan the Marauder
cover of Conan the Marauder
Author(s)	John Maddox Roberts
Cover artist	Ken Kelly
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Conan the Barbarian
Genre(s)	Sword and sorcery Fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1988
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	277 pp
ISBN	0-812-54266-5

Conan the Marauder is a fantasy novel written by John Maddox Roberts featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in January 1988, and reprinted in 1992. The first Birith edition was published in paperback by Orbit Books in February 1991.

Plot

The warlord Bartatua is uniting the Hyrkanian tribes east of the Vilayet Sea into a force for world conquest, beginning with the resistive city of Sogaria. Meanwhile, the exiled Turanian wizard Khondemir schemes to sorcerously control Bartatua's armies in pursuite of his own ends. Caught in the middle are Princess Ishkala of Sogaria, the seductive spy Lakhme, and the enslaved Conan, who must prove himself to the warlord to escape his fate. Everything comes to a head in the ancient Hyrkanian necropolis known as the City of Mounds.

Reception

Writing of some other Tor Conan novels, reviewer Harvey Ryan called Roberts "the most consistently successful of its stable of authors,"^[1] and "the most consistently entertaining" of them, showing "deft ability with storytelling and action scenes, and a thankful tendency not to overplay his hand and try to ape Robert E. Howard's style."^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Harvey, Ryan. "Pastiches 'R' Us: Conan and the Treasure of Python" (Review), Mar. 24, 2009.
2. ^ Harvey, Ryan. "Pastiches 'R' Us: Conan and the Amazon" (Review), Sep. 21, 2010.

Reference

• Conan the Marauder publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Fantastic Fiction entry for Conan the Marauder