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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 1397392" data-attributes="member: 1613">I think that one of the items that makes the Hyborian World stick out in comparison to other fantasy worlds in general, is that Howard published a 10,000-ish word essay entitled "The Hypborian Age" which details the history of Conan's (and Kull's) world.  That essay states:I think that the effort that Howard put into the Hypborian Age, in order to keep it consistent with his future writings and stories, lends a lot of credence and respect among F&SF fans to both the Hyborian world itself, as well as to the fictions that people it.  Few other writers have provided their readers with a baseline "setting bible" as part of the fictional experience (Tolkien's Silmarillion certainly comes to mind), and I think that Howard's efforts to do so certainly help lend his setting some additional verisimilitude.</blockquote>