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The Hyborian Age by Robert E. Howard

The Hyborian Age

Robert E. Howard, Saethon Williams, Alex Freeman

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · August 24, 2015

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A compact piece of worldbuilding that traces the shared prehistory behind Howard’s fictional ages.
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Start Publishing LLC, August 24, 2015

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About this book

The Hyborian Age is an essay by Robert E. Howard pertaining to the Hyborian Age, the fictional setting of his stories about Conan the Cimmerian. It sets out in detail the major events of the prehistorical period, before and after the time of the Conan stories. In describing the cataclysmic end of the Thurian Age, the period described in his Kull stories, Howard linked both sequences of stories into one shared universe.

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This essay also sets out the racial and geographical heritage of the fictional peoples and countries of the Age.

World Before Conan

A compact piece of worldbuilding that traces the shared prehistory behind Howard’s fictional ages.

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  • A creator’s map of the age behind the Conan and Kull stories

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  • Cataclysm, chronology, and the heritage of fictional peoples and countries

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  • Historical Fiction
  • Literary Fiction
  • Christian Historical Fiction
Authors
Robert E. Howard, Saethon Williams, Alex Freeman
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
August 24, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Historical Fiction