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Wheel of Time RPG

The Wheel of Time

The original novels

paperbacks usually in stock;
hardcovers in stock where indicated

Conan Books

Robert Jordan's Conan novels

(No connection with the Wheel of Time, other than their authorship)

Robert E. Howard's Original Conan Stories

(No connection with the Wheel of Time or Robert Jordan, save for his having contributed to the Conan Pastiche Canon)

Conan Novels by Robert E. Howard and others, edited by Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp

(No connection with the Wheel of Time or Robert Jordan, save for his having contributed to the Conan Pastiche Canon)

A dozen Conan novels & fix-ups were published in merkin mass market p/b by Lancer Books & Magnum/Lodestone/Prestige Books (not all by all of these loosely apparently linked last three), and in uk p/b by Sphere Books. In the messy aftermath of Lancer's banruptcy in 1973, it was determined that Sphere Books Ltd had the rights to continue publishing Conan books in the uk & (most of) the british commonwealth.
Lancer's original series numbering, also used by Sphere, was later changed by them, with Sphere following suit; subsequent books published by Berkley & later Tor Books in merkin mmp/b (some in large format trade p/b) were published in the uk by Sphere Books with series numbering running on from those first dozen or so, in the order in which they were published, through (circa) number 30;
i.e. series numbering is inconsistent, in both merkin and uk editions, and is no reliable guide to internal chronology.
The film novelisation of Conan the Barbarian was not initially so numbered by Sphere, though some later reprintings assigned it a place in the scheme.

Not all of the Tor Books pastiches had been published by Sphere Books by the time it was sold to Penguin Books, divested of its most attractive - to penguins - properties, and then sold on to, and absorbed by the bouncing (but insufficiently buoyant) czech, robert maxwell's MacDonald/Futura / BPCC publishing empire; Sphere Books disappearing both as a separate entity and as a publishing imprint.
It is possible that one or two reprints appeared - if so, i believe probably illegally, given what i understand of the terms agreed in the aftermath of Lancer Books'bankruptcy, and in the absence of the parties to these agreeing their variance - under MacDonald/Futura / BPCC's Orbit Books imprint.
Six of Tor Books' original Conan pastiche novels were published in uk p/b in Legend Books, Century-Hutchinson's Arrow Books' fantasy & sf imprint, later spun off as a separate company and then sold by the by-then owners, Random House uk ltd, to be absorbed into Orbit Books by their post-maxwell owners, Time-Warner uk and disappear as company and an imprint, the two Legend Books omnibus editions collecting these six novels as Conan Chronicles 1 & 2, being reissued as Orbit books - legally, so far as i am aware.

N.B. three different uk publishers have released books entitled Conan Chronicles; the contents of those published by Orion Books under their Gollancz imprint being of Robert E. Howard's original stories.

  • Conan (out of stock)
  • Conan of Cimmeria (out of stock)
  • Conan the Adventurer Prestige mmp/b July 1977 new copy - includes dated Ace publicity director's slip ukL 6.99
    cover art by Frank Frazetta; contents: 2pp map; intro by de Camp; The People of the Black Circle; The Slithering Shadow; Drums of Tombalku (completed by de Camp from outline & draft of first half by Howard); The Pool of the Black One - by Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp; series numbered "5".
  • Conan the Warrior (out of stock)
  • Conan the Conqueror (out of stock)
  • Conan the Freebooter (out of stock)
  • Conan the Userper (out of stock)
  • Conan the Wanderer (out of stock)
  • Conan of The Isles (out of stock)
  • Conan the Avenger (out of stock)
  • Conan the Buccaneer Sphere p/b 4th printing ukL 4.99
    by L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter; numbered "Book Eleven"
  • Conan of Aquilonia (out of stock)
    this title was announced, but not published, by Lancer Books before they collapsed.
  • The Conan Chronicles (out of stock)
    Collects Conan; Conan of Cimmeria & Conan the Freebooter; title & contents announced by Sphere Books
  • Conan of the Isles (out of stock)
  • Conan and the Spider God (out of stock)
  • Conan the Mercenary (out of stock)
  • Conan the Swordsman (out of stock)
  • Conan: the Sword of Skelos (out of stock)
    by Andrew Offutt
  • Conan: the Road of Kings Sphere p/b 6th printing 1989 new copy ukL 5.99
    by Karl Edward Wagner; illustrated by Tim Kirk

There is also a Conan Role-Playing Game

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