Conan the Liberator
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| Author | L. Sprague de Camp Lin Carter |
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| Illustrator | Tim Kirk |
| Cover artist | Bob Larkin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Conan the Barbarian |
| Genre | Sword and sorcery Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
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Publication date
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1979 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 274 pp |
| ISBN | 0-553-12706-3 |
| OCLC | 6390811 |
Conan the Liberator is a fantasy novel written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in February 1979,[1][2] and reprinted in 1982;[1] later paperback editions were issued by Ace Books (July 1987 and April 1991). The first hardcover edition was published by Tor Books in June 2002; a trade paperback followed from the same publisher in 2003. The first British edition was from Sphere Books (July 1987). The novel was later gathered together with Conan the Swordsman and Conan and the Spider God into the omnibus collection Sagas of Conan (Tor Books, 2004).[2]
Contents
Plot summary
Following the events of the story "The Treasure of Tranicos", Conan joins a conspiracy of former comrades-in-arms to overthrow Numedides, the mad and tyrannical king of Aquilonia. As commander of the rebel forces, he has the prospect of becoming king himself if they succeed, but he has not only Numedides' loyal troops, led by General Procas, to overcome, but the spells of the evil sorcerer Thulandra Thuu.
Chronologically, Conan the Liberator overlaps the events of the story "Wolves Beyond the Border", and is followed by the story "The Phoenix on the Sword".
Reception
Shortly before publication of the first hardcover edition in 2002 Kirkus Reviews pronounced that "[o]nce again, de Camp and Carter mime Howard's hyperbolic spirit and majestic inverted syntax with great style." The review expressed no other opinion as to the merit of the novel.[3]
Notes
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- Fantastic Fiction entry for Conan the Liberator
- "Conan the Liberator" - a book review by Cindy Lynn Speer
| Preceded by | Bantam Conan series (publication order) |
Succeeded by The Sword of Skelos |
| Preceded by | Complete Conan Saga (William Galen Gray chronology) |
Succeeded by "The Phoenix on the Sword" |
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- ↑ ""Conan the Liberator / L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter" [review]. Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2002.
