The Coming of Conan Volume 2

[Dark Jezter]

Current plans are

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (December 2003) - illustrated by Mark Shultz
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane (Summer 2004) - illustrated by Gary Gianni
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Fall [December] 2004) - illustrated by Gary Gianni
Bran Mak Morn: The Last King (May 2005) - illustrated by Gary Gianni
The Conquering Sword of Conan (Fall 2006) - illustrated by Greg Manchess


If these are succesful another 5 book deal is planned with Kull next I believe.

Terry

The final Conan book isn't coming out until 2006?

Man. What a rip.

 

[terryallenuk]

The final Conan book isn't coming out until 2006?

Man. What a rip.

Thing is the time it takes for Wandering Star to put out the hardback version . Volume 2 was due out last December , and is not coming out till June I believe. A lot of work involved .

Terry

 

[terryallenuk]

Solomon Kane is a Puritan swordsman who ends up (in many of his stories) fighting monsters and witchcraft in Africa. Very interesting character. Much grimmer than Conan and IMO some of Howard's best writing is in the Kane stories.

There's a great one where Kane meets the "real" version of the classical harpies. The title is "Wings in the Night" or something like that. Does anyone remember?

Got it somewhere in my collection . BTW seems a lot of folks are commenting how similar Jackman's Van Helsing looks to Kane .

Terry

 

[terryallenuk]

The final Conan book isn't coming out until 2006?

Man. What a rip.

Sorry , typo - should be 2005.

Terry

 

[your father is]

But in the meantime, you can pick up The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane which is coming out in June...

That sounds great! I don't think I've ever read these.

Btw, does anyone else think the world is ripe for a sword & sorcery renaissance? With Howard coming back into print in these spiffy new volumes, plus Busiek's excellent new Conan series from Dark Horse, and cool new fiction mags like Black Gate and the Kings of the Night series, it seems like a good time for us oft-neglected fans

 

[Tonguez]

Got it somewhere in my collection . BTW seems a lot of folks are commenting how similar Jackman's Van Helsing looks to Kane .

Terry

Yep thats what I thought when I saw the Van Helsing trailer

but then again pretty much all my human characters have been inspired by Solomon Kane too (he really is REHs best character - Conan was just more fun and accessible)

 

[David Howery]

2 more Conan books? I didn't think there were enough stories left to make up that many.. although, I guess Conan the Conquerer is a novel in itself....
Kane is a very neat character... it's a pity that REH didn't finish more stories on him (there were 2 or 3 half done finished by other authors.. not so well finished either).
While it's nice having hardback collections of these stories, I wish they'd collect more of his short stories that haven't seen print yet....

 

[Swoop109]

Anyone interested in the additional works by REH needs to check out the following;

http://www.wildsidepress.com/cgi-bi...een=CTGY&Store_Code=WP1&Category_Code=howard1

 

[terryallenuk]

Anyone interested in the additional works by REH needs to check out the following;

http://www.wildsidepress.com/cgi-bi...een=CTGY&Store_Code=WP1&Category_Code=howard1

In about a year Bison Books are reprinting Howard stuff too.

Terry

 

[Swoop109]

All we need now is a collection of Howard's poetry. IMO, this is some of REH's best writing.