Conan the Fearless

Conan the Fearless
cover of Conan the Fearless
Author(s)	Steve Perry
Cover artist	Kirk Reinert
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Conan the Barbarian
Genre(s)	Sword and sorcery Fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	275 pp
ISBN	0-812-54248-7

Conan the Fearless 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 February 1986; a regular paperback edition followed from the same publisher in January 1987, and was reprinted at least once. The first British edition was published in paperback by Sphere Books in January 1988.

Plot

Conan gets stuck in the Corinthian city of Mornstadinos defending Eldia, a girl who can command fire elementals, against the marge Sovartus. This brings him into conflict with a host of other threats as well, including the half-demon witch Djuvula, the artistocratic were-panther Lemparius, the avaricious criminal Loganaro, and various and sundry monsters.

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

1. ^ Harvey, Ryan. "Pastiches 'R' Us: Conan the Free Lance" (Review), Jul. 28, 2009.

Reference

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