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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-10076530466X

ISBN-139780765304667

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038802288

Product Key Features

Book TitleConan of Venarium

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicFantasy / General, Fantasy / Epic

IllustratorYes

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorHarry Turtledove

Book SeriesConan Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-040283

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Turtledove distinguishes himself with an unmatched portrait of Cimmerian society and a fine, intelligent characterization of the young barbarian. The best-selling alternate historian explores the Hyborian Age of Robert E. Howard's durable battler as successfully as he reinvents modern wars." -- Booklist "Turtledove's ability with the material is clear." -- Steven Silver's Reviews

Series Volume Number43

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisA new Conan adventure - from one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF! For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats, including such notables as L. Sprague de Camp, Poul Anderson, and Robert Jordan.Now Harry Turtledove, one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF, contributes a novel to the Conan saga - a tale of Conan in his youth, in the year or so before he becomes the wandering adventurer we know from the tales of Howard and others.On the verge of adulthood, he lives in a Cimmerian hamlet, caring for his ailing mother, working in his father's smithy, and casting his eye on the weaver's daughter next door.Then war comes: an invasion by the Aquilonian Empire. Conan burns to join the fight, but he's deemed too young. Then, from the border country, comes an unbelievable report: The Aquilonians have smashed the Cimmerian defending forces, and can rule as they please. Soon their heavily garrisoned forts dot the countryside. Their settlers follow after, carving homesteads out of other men's land.Every Cimmerian longs to drive the intruders out with fire and sword, but they must stay their hands, for the Aquilonians have promised savage reprisals. Then, intolerably, the Aquilonian commander takes a wholly dishonorable interest in the weaver's daughter - and he's not a man to wait, or even ask permission.It's not a recipe for a peaceable outcome., A new contribution to the barbarian adventure saga finds an adolescent Conan assisting his family and experiencing a first crush before Aquilonian forces invade the land.

LC Classification NumberPS3570.U76C665 2003