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Conan the Raider!

Conan the Raider!

Revisiting a pastiche adventure of the mighty Cimmerian

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Steve Donoghue
Jan 07, 2025
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Our book today is Conan the Raider, one of two Conan pastiche novels written by Leonard Carpenter in 1986. I first read it a bit later, in a paperback reprint with a dark, bush cover very much in line with the visual ethos of the Tor line at the time, and I mostly liked it. But it long since slipped away to one of those mysterious places all my discarded books go. A bookstore sale? A fellow Conan fan? A hungry young beagle puppy?

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