The Conan Chronicles

Conan the Invincible

Conan the Defender

Conan the Unconquered
Conan the Magnificent

Conan the Triumphant

Conan the Destroyer

The bloodthirsty barbarian hero Conan the Cimmerian was created by Robert E. Howard in 17 stories written between 1932 and his suicide at age 30 in 1936. This influential saga of swords and sorcery has been rearranged and extended by other authors and Robert Jordan--now famous in fantasy for his Wheel of Time sequence--wrote seven new Conan novels in the early 1980s. The Conan Chronicles is an omnibus of the first three: Conan the Invincible, Conan the Defender and Conan the Unconquered. Though perhaps lacking that touch of inspired madness that shone through Howard's clumsy writing and made Conan immortal, these are competent, full-blooded fantasy thrillers. Conan clashes with typical Howard foes, such as Amanar the Necromancer, servant of that snaky god-demon the Eater of Souls; Albanus the intending royal usurper, who has assembled an armoury of magic weapons to take a throne which Conan finds himself defending; and Jhandar the chaos mage of the Cult of Doom, who unwisely decides to eliminate Conan as an obstacle to his planned empire. Throughout there are lashings of swordplay, blood, loot, sex, human sacrifice, supernatural nasties and battles against impossible odds. Conan always ends up footloose, underfunded and ready for fresh exploits. As in soap opera, the charm of sword-and-sorcery fantasy is that the adventures go on forever.

Before achieving solo fame with his "Wheel of Time" series, Robert Jordan wrote seven 1980s fantasy potboilers about Canon the Cimmerian, that legendary barbarian hero created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. Other hands have now written far more Conan fiction than Howard ever did. Jordan's first three are collected in The Conan Chronicles 1. This companion omnibus contains Conan the Magnificent, Conan the Triumphant and Conan the Destroyer (though not the final Conan the Victorious). An extra bonus item is "Conan the Indestructible", L. Sprague de Camp's 34-page essay explaining the Conan timeline--which de Camp and Lin Carter first created from Howard's disconnected stories--and how Jordan's novels fit into it. The tales themselves follow the routine formula of Conanesque sword and sorcery, with some new, flamboyant super-villain wheeled on for each episode and eventually defeated after a satisfying extravaganza of magical and/or military special effects. Here the successive baddies are a horde of religious fanatics whose charismatic leader is backed up by a dragon's firepower; a beautiful, uppity, power-hungry princess and priestess who uses human sacrifice to raise a formidably unpleasant god; and another, closely similar, wicked lady who initially confuses Conan by hiring him as a professional thief. Jordan reliably delivers the mixture as before, with the prescribed amount of colourful slaughter.

Stan - t.1 - b. dobry, t.2 - b. dobry-

Język - angielski

Stron - 478+512

Wydawnictwo - Orbit

Oprawa - miękka

Wymiary - 20cm x 13cm

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