Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels · Book 1

Conan the Invincible

by Robert Jordan

Published
1 January 1982
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9780812509977
Type
novel

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About this book

Conan the Invincible opens Robert Jordan's run of licensed Conan novels, published in 1982 before Jordan began The Wheel of Time. At 288 pages, it sends Conan roaming the Hyborian Age as a mercenary and reluctant hero, in the fast, plot-forward pulp tradition Robert E. Howard originated.

Its place in Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels

Conan the Invincible is book 1 in the Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels series. It is followed by Conan the Defender. 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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