The Hyborian Age

Name: The Hyborian Age
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert E. Howard
ISBN: 9798868628245

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Matthew Schmitz

Unabridged: 1 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Altrusian Grace Media

Published: 02/16/2024

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz, this production includes both a "normal" narrated version as well as a "Dark Tribal Ambient" version.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. This essay also sets out the racial and geographical heritage of the fictional peoples and countries of the Age.

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on November 27, 2023

Nice backstory to the world Conan inhabits. I would suggest you read this book before you start the Conan series; it is really a map of the world he inhabits. If you are a fan of Conan comics then this book will really add lots of context to the issues. I really was amazed by the level of detail her......more

Goodreads review by Baal Of on April 23, 2021

Nice for giving a sense of the background history of the world of Conan, but it does read like a dry history book with a long series of who invaded whom, and detailed listings of atrocities, wars, and conquests. The kind of thing that caused me to fall asleep in history class.......more

Goodreads review by Philip on June 29, 2014

This essay prefaced everyone of the Lin Carter L Sprague DeCamp pastiches, so I've read this hundreds of times. The history of the Hyborian age.......more

Goodreads review by Erick on September 09, 2025

Que forma tan breve pero efectiva de establecer el mundo en el que suceden todas las historias de Conan (y aparentemente de varios personajes más de los que no tengo mucha información)......more