Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels · Book 6

Conan the Destroyer

by Robert Jordan

Published
1 January 1984
Pages
147
ISBN-13
9780812542387
Type
novel

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About this book

Conan the Destroyer, also 1984, is by far the shortest of Jordan's Conan novels at 147 pages -- roughly half the others' length -- because it's a novelization of that year's film rather than an original Jordan plot.

Its place in Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels

Conan the Destroyer is book 6 in the Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels series. It follows Conan the Magnificent. It is followed by Conan the Victorious. See the full Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels reading order.

Years before he began The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan (then early in his career under the name he'd make famous) was hired to continue Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian in a run of licensed adventure novels for Tor Books. Across seven books, Jordan's Conan roams the Hyborian Age as a mercenary, thief and reluctant hero, brawling through haunted ruins, hostile courts and battlefields in the pulp adventure tradition Howard originated in the 1930s — sorcerers to outwit, kingdoms to topple, and no shortage of…

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