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Conan the Defiant 
cover of Conan the DefiantAuthor(s) Steve Perry Country United States Language English Series Conan the Barbarian Genre(s) Sword and sorcery Fantasy Publisher Tor Books Publication date 1987 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 245 pp ISBN 0-812-54264-9 Preceded by The Thing in the Crypt Followed by Conan the Hunter Conan the Defiant is a fantasy novel written by Steve Perry featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in trade paperback by Tor Books in October 1987, with a regular paperback edition fissued simultaneously by the same publisher, and was reprinted in August 1988. A British edition was published in paperback by Orbit Books in January 1990.
Contents
Plot
Conan comes to the aid of Engh, a priest of the Suddah Oblates, and after his new friend is killed seeks vengeance on the necromancer responsible, Neg the Malefic. Neg schemes to employ the jewel known as the Source of Light to raise the dead as an army of conquest. Traveling with the warrior maiden Elashi and the zombie woman Tuanne, Conan overcomes numerous menaces on the journey to the stronghold where he will battle Neg, including the Men With No Eyes, henchment of the One With No Name, and a horde of spiders.
Chronology
Internal evidence indicates that Perry's later Conan work Conan the Indomitable directly follows this novel, though in the comprehensive Conan chronology of William Galen Gray, Sean A. Moore's Conan the Hunter is placed between the two books.
Reception
Writing on one of Perry's other novels, reviewer Harvey Ryan assessed the author's Conan corpus as "goofy," noting that he "has a reputation among Conan fandom for overkill and general silliness." Ryan does rate this book above Perry's later novel Conan the Free Lance.[1]
Notes
Reference
- Conan the Defiant publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Fantastic Fiction entry for Conan the Defiant
Categories:- 1987 novels
- Conan the Barbarian novels
- American fantasy novels
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