F/SF

Björn Nyberg y L. Sprague de Camp: El regreso de Conan; Robert E. Howard: La Edad Hyborea (II)

Conan loses girl, Conan finds girl, Conan chops....something dies, probably in more than one dimension. this is a pastiche volume, mostly by ( )

Björn Nyberg should really be attributed as the principle author, not Robert E. Howard (Conan's creator), as it's Mr Nyberg who writes the actual story. His style is good in its own right, but he doesn't in any way mirror the brilliance of Mr Howard.

I enjoyed this in parts rather than on the whole. I felt that too many scenes where Conan faced great danger were resolved to quickly or/and easily. Little suspense was in evidence like one would expect in a Howard-composed Conan tale.

But, as L. Sprague de Camp notes in the introduction, Björn Nyberg's first language is not English, so with this in mind I admire his efforts in filling in another gap in the Conan chronology. ( )

There are many reasons to dislike this book - but the deux ex machina ending with Conan praying to his god, Crom, at the end (and Crom actually helping) is the foremost reason. The geography is screwed up, but the initial plot is kind of fun. ( )