What are your favorite Conan pastiches by TOR?

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[BadMojo]

There's no option for "haven't enough people taken a piss on REH's grave by now?"

I've never actually read a good Conan pastiche, and many of them were just crass money grabs.

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

Does "Conan the Librarian" count?

"Don't you know da dewey decimal system?"

No? Nevermind then...

 

[Darkwolf71]

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[Darkwolf71]

I always thought R. Jordan did decent (not great, but passable) Conan stories. The rest were pretty much trash as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Orius]

I haven't read many of the TOR pastiches, and most of them when I was a teen (my father had a bunch of the early ones). I'll agree that Jordan didn't do Conan too badly. I only have two of them, and Conan the Victorious is actually pretty good. The writing is clearly Jordan though, and not an attempt to ape Howard; it's almost like WoT lite (and yes, Jordan does resolve all the plotlines ).

Conan the Marauder is also a pretty good story. In it, Conan joins the army of a Genghis Khan-wannabe in Hykania. It's definitely one of the best pastiches IMO.

Two more I liked as a kid were Conan the Fearless and Conan the Valorous, but I don't know how my more mature mind would react to them today.