Conan the Guardian

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Conan the Guardian
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Cover of first edition
Author Roland Green
Cover artist Ken Kelly
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Conan the Barbarian
Genre Sword and sorcery
Published1991 (Tor Books)
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages280
ISBN 0-8125-0961-7

Conan the Guardian is a fantasy novel by American writer Roland Green, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in January 1991, and reprinted in October 1997 and August 2000. [1]

Contents

Plot

Conan and other former mercenaries take employment as bodyguards for Lady Livia, head of one of the ruling merchant houses of Argos. Livia is threatened by a rival seeking to gain personal control of all Argos, who is secretly backed by a sorcerer.

Reception

Writing of this novel, reviewer Don D'Ammassa noted that "Green's Conan is a good deal more sophisticated, even as a young man, than he is portrayed in most of the books by other authors." [2]

Notes

  1. Conan the Guardian title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. D'Ammassa, Don. "Conan the Guardian" (review on Critical Mass). Sep. 9, 2017.

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References

Preceded by
Conan the Formidable
Tor Conan series
(publication order)
Succeeded by
Conan the Outcast
Preceded by
Conan the Triumphant
Complete Conan Saga
(William Galen Gray chronology)
Succeeded by
"Queen of the Black Coast"