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by Robert E. Howard, with an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale

The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy’s most enduring science fantasy classics!

Robert E. Howard’s Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the terrible devils that enslave Almuric, but to do so he must first defeat the inner demons that forced him to abandon Earth.

Filled with vile beasts and thrilling adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Almuric is one of Howard’s few novels, and an excellent yarn from one of America’s most distinct literary voices.

160-page softcover trade paperback ISBN: 1-60125-043-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-043-8


About the Author

Born in Peaster, Texas, Robert Ervin Howard (1906–1936) is cited by many as the father of the sword-and-sorcery genre. With his action-packed style and such notable characters as Kull, Solomon Kane, Red Sonya, and the instantly recognizable Conan the Cimmerian, Howard rose quickly to become one of the greatest pulp authors of all time, publishing hundreds of stories that dominated the pages of Weird Tales. In addition to fantasy, Howard also achieved substantial success in genres from western to horror, and alongside his success with Conan is equally known for his contributions to the Cthulhu mythos through correspondence with H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Though his career was cut short by his suicide at the age of 30, Howard remains an icon of the pulp era, and the characters he created continue to inspire film, games, and other media, giving him an impact on the fantasy genre that's still felt a century after his birth.

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Brett Hubbard,

A 17 -Zelara-(body-shot) HRF avatar

WAHOO! Thanks, Paizo, ofr undertaking this! Too many of the great, imaginative, old-school sci-fi and fantasy novels are out of print, and too much of what is written today is too formulaic. PLEASE keep Planet Stories going!

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!

Paizo Employee Erik Mona (Publisher),

Rel avatar

Brett Hubbard wrote:

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!


We've strongly considered all of these authors, and there are books from all of them waiting to be read in the "for consideration" pile. I strongly suspect that much of Bester is still in print, and I know at least the first couple Lensmen books are in print. Which sort of stinks, because they would be perfect for the line.

--Erik Mona

Lilith (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, GameMastery Cards, Planet Stories Subscriber),

Chess-final 2 avatar

Lensmen! Lennnnssmaaaaaan!

Greg Hersom,

Awesome! I'm a huge Robert E. Howard Fan and while browsing in Amazon for his books I saw this and had to look up Planet Stories. It's past-due that someone did this.. As it’s already been stated, the sci-fi fantasy book market has become a mess of repetitiveness and overly-complex stories. This brings back the fun in the genre.

Now if someone would just do the same for Sword-and-Sorcery.

dlotemp,

Erik Mona wrote:
Brett Hubbard wrote:

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!


We've strongly considered all of these authors, and there are books from all of them waiting to be read in the "for consideration" pile. I strongly suspect that much of Bester is still in print, and I know at least the first couple Lensmen books are in print. Which sort of stinks, because they would be perfect for the line.

--Erik Mona


Erik:

I'm sure you and the staff have a mountain of suggested authors but I'd like to throw one more atop the heap: Henry Kuttner. Kuttner produced a lot of sci-fi. The STARTLING WORLDS OF HENRY KUTTNER collection from the late 80s was a great introduction to three of his fantasy worlds. Unfortunately, I don't see much of his work in print. There was a recent collection of some of his short sci-fi stories published to coincide with THE LAST MIMZY, which was based upon his work, but that collection didn't contain any of his fantasy worlds. Might be worth a look.

Paizo Employee Erik Mona (Publisher),

Rel avatar

We are publishing Kuttner's "Elak of Atlantis" and "Prince Raynor" stories in November. Check out paizo.com/planetstories for more details. We're certainly considering additional Kuttner tales, and will also publish two books by his wife, C.L. Moore.

--Erik

dlotemp,

Erik Mona wrote:
We are publishing Kuttner's "Elak of Atlantis" and "Prince Raynor" stories in November. --Erik

You Rock, Erik.

I must have missed that entry. I'll definitely check it out.

Paizo Employee Erik Mona (Publisher),

Rel avatar

Greg Hersom wrote:
Awesome! I'm a huge Robert E. Howard Fan and while browsing in Amazon for his books I saw this and had to look up Planet Stories. It's past-due that someone did this.. As it’s already been stated, the sci-fi fantasy book market has become a mess of repetitiveness and overly-complex stories. This brings back the fun in the genre.

Now if someone would just do the same for Sword-and-Sorcery.


Well, we've got C.L. Moore's "Jirel of Joiry" stories and Henry Kuttner's "Elak of Atlantis" and "Prince Raynor" stories, all of which are important to the sword and sorcery sub-genre. Did you have specific titles or authors in mind?

--Erik

William Simpson,

Heroguy avatar

Any reason this has been pushed back till December? The listing for Amazon still says August (which was the original publication date). I just ordered it from Amazon two days ago because it was supposed to be coming out on the 15th of August. Is the whole group of books being pushed back?

Paizo Employee Erik Mona (Publisher),

Rel avatar

Nope. Just this one. It looks like we are on schedule for October now, but the other books in the line will all come out as announced. Amazon will most likely have updated release information shortly.

--Erik

Eric Reiss,

This is great. Have to throw out Lin Carter, Burt Akers, and of course ERB (John Carter of Mars)!

Talion09,

Avatar Belkar avatar

Eric Reiss wrote:
This is great. Have to throw out Lin Carter, Burt Akers, and of course ERB (John Carter of Mars)!

I'm pretty sure John Carter of Mars is still in print. At least as of a year or two ago, when my brother went out and found a new copy.

Paizo Employee Erik Mona (Publisher),

Rel avatar

A Princess of Mars is in print in at least three different editions from three different publishers. Including Penguin and Barnes & Noble.

So that's a no-go.

Akers is interesting. I got about two-thirds of the way into "Transit to Scorpio" last winter, and it was better than I expected. All of his books are available in e-format somewhere or other on the internet. Some of the later ones were only ever published in Germany, as I understand it. Akers died before finishing the final volume, something like the 43rd book.

I think it would be fun to get the rights to a series like this and release them very rapidly as a side project, but Planet Stories would need to get a lot more popular and profitable for me to seriously consider it.

You all can help with that, of course.

--Erik

William Simpson,

Heroguy avatar

Erik Mona wrote:

Akers is interesting. I got about two-thirds of the way into "Transit to Scorpio" last winter, and it was better than I expected. All of his books are available in e-format somewhere or other on the internet. Some of the later ones were only ever published in Germany, as I understand it. Akers died before finishing the final volume, something like the 43rd book.

I think it would be fun to get the rights to a series like this and release them very rapidly as a side project, but Planet Stories would need to get a lot more popular and profitable for me to seriously consider it.

You all can help with that, of course.

--Erik


I will do my part. As a librarian, I order books for my library, including the SciFi/Fantasy section. I intend to order as many of the Planet Stories as I can. Please encourage your local libraries to consider ordering these books. I still intend to buy my own copies of many of the books, if not all of them.

I would also like to see new editions of the works of Clifford Simak and L. Sprague deCamp (non-conan works),as mentioned above.

Barsoomian White Ape,

Brett Hubbard wrote:
WAHOO! Thanks, Paizo, ofr undertaking this! Too many of the great, imaginative, old-school sci-fi and fantasy novels are out of print, and too much of what is written today is too formulaic. PLEASE keep Planet Stories going!

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!


Please no de Camp. The guy's overbearing, pompous writing is nothing less than grating. That he also nearly devastated R E Howard's Conan in a mismanaged attempt to revive the series also means he should be left in rightful obscurity.

Andoran Gailbraithe,

Intellect-devourer avatar

Thank you! For years I've been telling people about this awesome book, one of Howard's absolute best, and no one has ever heard of it. I'm loathe to loan out any of my sword & sorcery books, so it's great to see this genre classic back in print -- I can finally tell them where to pick it up!

Gardner Fox's "Warrior of Llarn" and "Theif of Llarn" also deserve to be in print again, having been sadly out of print for thirty years. And if you guys were really cool, you'd get your hands on reprint rights for "Transit in Scorpio." Now that's an awesome book.

Qadira Russ Taylor (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 6, Contributor),

Gorum Color avatar

Barsoomian White Ape wrote:

Please no de Camp. The guy's overbearing, pompous writing is nothing less than grating. That he also nearly devastated R E Howard's Conan in a mismanaged attempt to revive the series also means he should be left in rightful obscurity.

The Reluctant King series is a hoot, however. But not hard enough to get for this imprint.

Trey,

Owl avatar

Whoa, Nellie. That Joe Lansdale isn't a shy one, is he? ;)

Tobus Neth,

Dragon 2 B avatar

Heathy who would win? CONAN vs.ALMURIC

Andoran Montalve (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Planet Stories Subscriber),

Iomedae Final avatar

Erik... I must tell you... I hate you :P

please I know the purist idea of NO corecting the original mistakes, and that is truer and closer to the genr... I know.. but when the scene could be take for the worst by a simple change of words... can we edit that?

lol, sorry, there is a paragraph in the middle of the book... that has deeply pushed inside my mind, and the srenght of Howard's words is so great that I can't take it away... even when I know it WAS a doubt INSTEAD of a certainty...

Spoiler:
for bigger reference... when the army of Yaggas the text makes you think that Essau actually sees when the Yaggas cut Altha's head (not in a clean death way by the way) and sees her lovely black head fall and tumble along the bloodied ground!

It took me 2 days to be able to continue reading (when i began i returned to that paragraph in disbelief and rereadit al least 6 times! i know... its morbid ) until i discovered the ruth of the and my msitake 2 pages later and was certain 2 more ahead.

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