Smith and June Thomson, do a masterful job of emulating Doyle.Īnd there are a fair number of folks who write stories in which you can at least get some sense of Doyle’s style. A relatively small number of authors, such as Hugh Ashton, Denis O. Quite a few of them, myself included, try to emulate the voice and tone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain and a LOT of people write stories about the great detective. And my experience so far is that more often than not, they fall into the “meh” or worse category. The Tor books, pushed out at a punishing pace, are very much a mixed bag. You’ve got to read the back cover to get some clue what the story is about. It’s a litany of titles like Conan the Valorous, Conan the Defiant, Conan the Great, Conan the Formidable: you get the idea. Roberts’ Conan and the Treasure of the Python and Leonard Carpenter’s Conan of the Red Brotherhood.īut the majority are all titled Conan the (insert vague word here). Some of the Tor titles give you at least a bit of an idea what the story is about, such as John M. I have maybe two-thirds of the Tor books and have read two-thirds of those (What: I’m channeling Yogi Berra now?). Steve Perry’s Conan the Indomitable is one of the worst fantasy books I’ve ever read (even though it is a direct sequel to Perry’s Conan the Defiant, which I liked).’ Roberts’ Conan the Rogue is an homage to Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and one of my favorite Conan books. At two per year, the quality varied wildly, as you can imagine. ‘From 1982 through 2003, eight authors (though primarily four) cranked out 43 new Conan novels for Tor. And less often, I find one of the Tor paperbacks that I haven’t gotten around to yet and try one of them.Īs I mentioned in this post on what qualifies as Conan Canon (say that five times fast!) back in 2015: For a little more reading, I snag one of the Ace/Lancer series edited by L Sprague De Camp (with some help from Lin Carter). I usually grab one of the three excellent Del Rey volumes (which Howard Andrew Jones and Bill Ward entertainingly went through – here’s the first installment) and get a quick fix.
Every so often, I get the hankering to read a tale of Conan the Cimmerian (better known as ‘The Barbarian’ thanks to Ah-nuld Schwarzenmuscles).
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