Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Conan the Buccaneer by Lin Carter Lancer/Ace Conan the Buccaneer: Rereading and Reminiscence. I know I’ve been a little lax in continuing my recollections of these Lancer Conan novels that I read in high school and I apologize. So after much delay, here is my recollection of Conan the Buccaneer. I read this one probably after having read the first several novels that I’ve already reviewed, but not in their order. As I had stated, the first one I ran across was Conan the Adventurer, and then having fell in love with Robert E. Howard’s barbaric hero, I then read the first four books. That put me on track to read this one. At the time, I probably had no clue this was a pastiche. I just assumed everything was written by Howard and didn’t realize how much of their own work L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter added to the Conan histories. Therefore, at the time, I thought this was just a really good story without any of the baggage many Howard purists attach to it. I’ve defended de Camp and Carter previously and don’t feel I need to continue doing so, except that I still firmly believe if they and Lancer hadn’t created these paperback editions with Frank Frazetta’s paintings, then Howard’s Conan, and probably all his writing, would be forgotten like many of his contemporaries. Conan the Buccaneer. Conan the Buccaneer (1971) by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. Contents “Introduction” (Lin Carter) “Conan the Buccaneer” L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter) Introduction . Lengthy introduction to Robert E. Howard, the Conan stories, sword and sorcery in general, as well as an explanation of where this book fits into the timeline of Conan’s life. Conan, incidentally is 37 or 38 and “the story serves to cover an otherwise inadequately chronicled period of Conan’s biography, those two years in which he was a buccaneer at Zingara.” Conan the Buccaneer . First publication, 1971 by Lancer Books. According to the inside title page, this novel is “number eleven in the Lancer Uniform Edition of CONAN. Chronologically this volume is Number Six in the Saga of CONAN, following CONAN THE ADVENTURER and preceding CONAN THE WARRIOR. To be honest, the best part of this book is the Frank Frazetta cover with Conan in the middle of another battle, strangling a foe. I mean, the story isn’t bad. In fact, it kept me wanting to read more and I finished it in record time, but there is nothing by Howard here. It’s not a fragment or unfinished story that they expanded and completed. It’s their own work so it’s as much fanfic as any of the more current non-Howard novels written about Conan. Next up, the sixth book in the series, Conan the Warrior , which contains three exciting Robert E. Howard Conan stories that had originally been published in Weird Tales. Tag: Lin Carter. Episode 86 – Lin Carter’s “The Immortal of World’s End” with special guest Kira Magrann. Kira Magrann joins us to discuss Lin Carter’s “The Immortal of World’s End”, LARPing as an awkward teenager, goth teenage years, blending sci-fi and fantasy, tonal shifts, strange metaphors, the cognitive dissonance of glorifying violence after seeing war firsthand, evolving cultural norms, positive inclusions of beasts and animals, sexualizing all or none of the characters instead of just the female-presenting characters, random charts, Trancore as a music genre, and much more! Episode 68 – L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter’s “Conan the Buccaneer” with special guest Carmin Vance. Carmin Vance joins us to discuss L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter’s “Conan the Buccaneer”, barriers for entry into the hobby, weird descriptions of breasts, sword and sorcery as escapism, black amazon warriors, reading non-Howard Conan stories, the man-eating trees of Nubia, ritual magic, the bellybuttons of the Easter Island statues, reading with an open mind, and much more! Episodes 63 – Lin Carter’s “The Enchantress of World’s End” with special guest Todd Bunn. Hoi and Jeff chat with Todd Bunn about Lin Carter’s “The Enchantress of World’s End”, flipping expectations, one-shot adventures, sphinxes, and introductory RPG systems! Episode 42 – Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan the Wanderer” with special guest Jon from the Cromcast. Hoi and Jeff discuss Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan the Wanderer” with special guest Jon from the Cromcast. Episode 40 – Lin Carter’s “The Warrior of World’s End” with special guest Howard Andrew Jones. Hoi and Jeff discuss Lin Carter’s “The Warrior of World’s End” with special guest Howard Andrew Jones. Episode 17 – Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan of Cimmeria” (Please also see the Episode 2 show notes for additional details about the Lancer/Ace Conan books.) Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1969) by Robert E. Howard , L. Sprague de Camp , and Lin Carter was part of the first comprehensive paperback edition of the Conan saga. Conan of Cimmeria was the seventh tenth volume published, although it is second in the internal chronology– later printings of the series numbered the books in chronological order. When Lancer went out of business in 1973, Ace Books picked up and completed the series, keeping it in print until the mid 1990s. As with Conan, series editors de Camp and Carter filled in gaps in Conan’s timeline by expanding Howard’s unpublished notes and fragments, re- writing non-Conan stories, and writing entirely new stories. For the purist, the Howard-only stories in Conan of Cimmeria are “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” (written in 1934, first published 1953, definitive version published 1976), “Queen of the Black Coast” (1934), and “The Vale of Lost Women” (first published in The Magazine of Horror, 1967). The de Camp and Carter originals in Conan of Cimmeria are “The Curse of the Monolith” (first published in the magazine Worlds of Fantasy in 1968 as “Conan and the Cenotaph”), “The Lair of the Ice Worm”, and “The Castle of Terror”. “The Blood-Stained God” is a de Camp rewrite of a then unpublished Howard story “The Curse of the Crimson God”, with de Camp changing the setting from early 20th century Afghanistan and adding the fantastic elements to turn it into a Conan tale. “The Blood-Stained God” first saw print in the hardcover collection Tales of Conan (Gnome Press, 1955). The final story in this volume “The Snout in the Dark” was completed by de Camp and Carter from synopsis and story fragment found in Howard’s notes. For the curious, the untitled synopsis and fragment can be found in the appendices of The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003). Frank Frazetta once again contributes an unforgettable cover painting, this time of Conan’s battle with Atali’s brothers from “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter”: In addition to the Conan influences on Dungeons & Dragons cited in Episode 2, Conan of Cimmeria was the probable source of the Monster Manual ’s remorhaz , a sort of ice centipede inverse of the remora from “The Lair of the Ice Worm”. “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter” probably deserves equal credit along with the first Harold Shea story “The Roaring Trumpet” for the Dungeons & Dragons treatment of frost giants, which first appeared in the original 1974 edition and were fully detailed in the Monster Manual (1977). Frost giants would become iconic D&D foes with the publication of TSR’s second D&D module, 1978’s G2: The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, the middle module of the Against the Giants trilogy. Reading Resources: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria Book 1) (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003) is the first of a 3-book trade paperback series collecting the Conan stories in the order they were written by Robert E. Howard, often going back to his original typescripts. Also included are many of Howard’s Conan story drafts, note, and fragments, but none of the posthumous revisions and new stories by de Camp, Carter, et al. This volume also features numerous evocative interior illustrations by Mark Schultz . http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/@Conan.html is an online public domain repository of all of the Conan stories that were published during Robert E. Howard’s lifetime and several posthumously published works that are out of copyright. Gaming Resources: Monster Manual (1e) (RPGNow affiliate link) If you are in Brooklyn and want to join the IRL book club, then come over here . The list of books we will discuss are outlined within this link. And finally, the in-print omnibus, anthology, and online resources are living over here . Episode 15 – Lin Carter’s “Giant of World’s End” Lin Carter has a multi-faceted reputation in the world of fantastic fiction. As an editor and critic, he is virtually indispensable, most notably for his role in editing the landmark Ballantine Adult Fantasy series (BAFS), as well as the subsequent Flashing Swords! , The Year’s Best Fantasy , and Weird Tales anthologies. Carter’s legacy as a writer is considerably more muddied by his “posthumous collaborations” with Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith , which often consisted of creating entirely new stories from unfinished drafts and story fragments. These stories were presented as newly rediscovered works, with Carter carrying the torch for Howard and Smith. Lin Carter was hardly alone in his “posthumous collaborations” however, as he was following a precedent set in the 1950s by August Derleth and L.