Conan the Indomitable

Conan the Indomitable
cover of Conan the Indomitable
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	1989
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	273 pp
ISBN	0-812-50295-7

Conan the Indomitable 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 1989; a regular paperback edition followed from the same publisher in September 1990.

Plot

Conan and his companion Elashi stumble on a stranger underground realm inhabited by blind apes, one-eyed monsters and giant worms in thrall to a witch and warlock. Their coming upsets the local balance of power. Various complications ensue, including a revolt of the enslaved creatures and the necessity of slaying their masters, before Conan can win his way back to the surface world. One of the cyclops and worms are featured sympathetically in a subplot.

Chronology

Internal evidence indicates that Perry's earlier Conan work Conan the Defiant directly precedes 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."^[1]

Notes

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

Reference

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