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Conan the Unconquered 
cover of Conan the UnconqueredAuthor(s) Robert Jordan Cover artist Ron Walotsky Country United States Language English Series Conan the Barbarian Genre(s) Sword and sorcery Fantasy Publisher Tor Books Publication date 1983 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 286 pp ISBN 0-523-48053-9 Conan the Unconquered is a fantasy novel written by Robert Jordan featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in April 1983, and reprinted on a number of occasions. The first British edition was published by Sphere Books in February 1988. The first trade paperback edition was published by Tor in 1991. It was later gathered together with Conan the Invincible and Conan the Defender into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (Tor Books, 1995).
Contents
Plot
The young Conan, newly arrived in the Turanian city of Aghrapur, is approached by Emilio, a crony from his thieving days in Corintha. The thief's lover Davinia desires a necklace in the possession of the Cult of Doom, and Emilio wants Conan' to help him steal it. Conan is uninterested until the astrologer Sharak convinces him that his life is linked to that of the necromancer Jhandar, leader of the cult, with one or the other fated to die.
Reception
Reviewer Harvey Ryan felt "[t]he book has a feeling of comfort food: neither challenging nor surprising, but providing decent sword-and-sorcery entertainment." He considered Jordan's writing style "like an over-imitation Howard," but "isn’t bad despite its flawed approach to evoking old pulp prose ... [and] it still moves forward steadily and takes the reader along with it." He identified "[o]ne of the book’s biggest weaknesses [as] its women. They’re basically trivial."[1]
Notes
Reference
- Conan the Unconquered publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Fantastic Fiction entry for Conan the Unconquered
Categories:- 1983 novels
- Conan the Barbarian novels
- American fantasy novels
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