Reception
Lagomorph Rex, having read all the Steve Perry Conan novels, notes that "this much Steve perry in one lump is hazardous to your health" and that he doesn't "really even know what to say about this one; I've already said it all about the last three"—which he assessed negatively. He observes that "all of Steve Perry's books read as the first part of a trilogy, which was fine back in Defiant or even Indomitable, but the fact it continued in Free-lance and Formidable... It's a standard formula... introduce Conan to some assorted odd creatures, bed at least one of the strange creature's females, have him go on a long quest, and at the end be a few hundred miles closer to Shadizar." He concludes "o now we are in Shadizar, but what sucks is, according to Robert Jordan's timeline (the editor of the Tor Pastiches), these Steve Perry books would lead into Robert E. Howard's Tower of the Elephant. But astute readers will remember that Tower of the Elephant DOESN'T TAKE PLACE IN SHADIZAR! So, Steve has just spent about 1200 pages getting Conan to the wrong city."
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)