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"The Hyborian Heresies" is an interesting book that takes a look at R.E. Howard's construction of the Hyborian age. It mainly focuses on the age in two parts.
The first is the chronological order of Howard's Conan stories and the second are various mysteries that happen during the Hyborian Age from the great cataclysm that sunk Atlantis to the rise of the Picts.
Whether due to Robert E. Howard's early death, the non-chronological publishing of the Conan stories, or the addition of pastiches into t ...more
The first is the chronological order of Howard's Conan stories and the second are various mysteries that happen during the Hyborian Age from the great cataclysm that sunk Atlantis to the rise of the Picts.
Whether due to Robert E. Howard's early death, the non-chronological publishing of the Conan stories, or the addition of pastiches into t ...more
An engaging collection of essays on the Conan stories and REH's Hyborian Age. I'd had this book for awhile, and I'm sorry that I didn't read it sooner. Rippke has done some excellent work in pouring through the stories to pick up bits of information on topics and mysteries of the Hyborian Age, such as pre-human Stygia, Acheron, and the green-stone cities. I don't always agree with the conclusions he reaches, but I enjoyed the evidence he marshaled along the way.
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One of the best analyses of Robert E. Howard's Hyborian age I have ever read. It is a definitive resource; it is so definitive, it went on my self with the actual Howard books - the only non-Howard book on that particular shelf.
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