Conan Challenge

[Desdichado]

Hey, I've been a bit out of touch and hadn't seen this thread, but Red Nails is still not in it? That's disappointing. Although I didn't realize there was enough material to have a third book.

Crap, I'm still diddering around with the first one...

 

[Faraer]

Del Rey has a deal with Wandering Star to publish five trade paperbacks: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, The Bloody Crown of Conan, Bran Mak Morn: The Last King (May 2005), and The Conquering Sword of Conan (Dec 2005). Sales of these five -- particularly, I suspect, the non-Conan volumes -- will determine whether Del Rey licenses more of the books.

Del Rey is apparently *not* interested in the Compete Poetry, so that Wandering Star will probably be issuing a trade hardback (under $100). But Mike Mignola wants to illustrate it.

Get volume one, Joshua! They're great stories, beautifully presented, for a crazy price considering all the painstaking unpaid editorial work it represents.

 

[David Howery]

hmm.... well, a big premise behind the Conan novels is that when they were done by Lancer/Ace way back when, they were rearranged in chronical order instead of publication order, some outlines were filled out by other authors, and a number of (mostly Godawful) pastiches were put in as well; the new books are pure Howard, with no additions. Did something similar happen to the previous collections of non-Conan stories? I know that some half done tales of Solomon Kane were finished by other authors, but were the stories that Howard finished over-edited like the Conan stories? What about Kull, Bran Mak Morn, etc?

 

[Prince of Happiness]

I got my copy today. Barnes & Noble has tons of them.

Plus in other Conan-geek news, at least for those in the Seattle area: At the Emerald City Comic Con, Roy Thomas, illustrator for Marvel's silver age Conan series and Cary Nord, lead illustrator for Dark Horse's Conan series will be there.

 

[Swoop109]

Did something similar happen to the previous collections of non-Conan stories? I know that some half done tales of Solomon Kane were finished by other authors, but were the stories that Howard finished over-edited like the Conan stories? What about Kull, Bran Mak Morn, etc?

There have been different editions of the non-Conan stories to hit the market over the last several decades. In a number of these there was some editing and additional material added to the uncompleted stories. The Wandering Star/Del Rey editions are, I belive, the first to present as close to the original Howard as possible.

Btw, here is a link to a chronology recently worked on by Dale Rippke. He presents the material in, MHO, a well thought and researched manor.

http://www.rehupa.com/rippke_chronology.htm