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Conan the Freebooter 
Conan the Freebooter by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, Lancer Books, 1968Author(s) Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp Cover artist John Duillo Country United States Language English Series Conan the Barbarian Genre(s) Sword and sorcery Fantasy short stories Publisher Lancer Books Publication date 1968 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 223 pp ISBN NA Preceded by Conan of Cimmeria Followed by Conan the Wanderer Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, and Japanese. It was later gathered together with Conan and Conan of Cimmeria into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (1989).
Contents
- "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
- "Hawks over Shem" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
- "Black Colossus" (Robert E. Howard)
- "Shadows in the Moonlight" (Robert E. Howard)
- "The Road of the Eagles" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
- "A Witch Shall be Born" (Robert E. Howard)
Plot summary
In these stories from Conan's late twenties, the Cimmerian is a mercenary with the Free Company in the city-states of Shem and the lands to the north and east, a war leader of the steppe-raiding Kozaki, and finally a soldier in the service of the kingdom of Kauran.
Chronologically, the five short stories collected as Conan the Freebooter fall between Conan of Cimmeria and Conan the Wanderer.
References
- Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 40–41.
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