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%T Conan the Rogue
%A John Maddox Roberts
%I TOR
%D November 1992
%O paperback, US$9.50
%P 304
%G ISBN 0-812-51411-4
Most of the latter-day Conan pastiches are deadful, but this one is
hilarious. Roberts gives us a sort of Hyborian-age remake of
The Maltese Falcon, with Conan as Sam Spade. All the other
characters show up in fairly thin disguises; the author's version of
Casper Gutman is particularly funny. I'm keeping this one.
%T Shadow's Daughter
%A Shirley Meier
%I Baen
%D November 1991
%O paperback, US$4.99
%P 323
%G ISBN 0-671-72096-1
Another fine novel of the Fifth Millenium by Shirley Meier, half of
the team that gave us The Cage (RR#3). This is the story of Megan Whitlock's
childhood on the streets of F'talezon. We follow an ordinary little
girl through the trials that forge her into a woman --- the woman who
will one day triumph over pirates, slavers and treachery to become one
of the great trading princes of the wild Brahvniki River and change
the destiny of nations. It ends years before The Cage;
this gap will be filled by the upcoming reissue of The Sharpest
Edge. Recommended to all fans of these books so far, and that
includes me.
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