For the past week, I've been reading a set of stories, written by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s, about a tall, brawny, sword-wielding adventurer named Conan. These stories take place in a fantasy world that resembles the early Iron Age, and in these tales, Conan is sometimes a thief, sometimes a war-leader, sometimes a King, sometimes a pirate, but he is always a simple guy who doesn't care for civilized ways, and who tends to get into a lot of conflict with the assorted nobles, wizards, merchants, and other rich, settled people amongst whom he finds himself.
These stories take place in a fantasy world that resembles the early Iron Age, and in these tales, Conan is sometimes a thief, sometimes a war-leader, sometimes a King, sometimes a pirate, but he is always a simple guy who doesn't care for civilized ways, and who tends to get into a lot of conflict with the assorted nobles, wizards, merchants, and other rich, settled people amongst whom he finds himself. These Conan stories were originally published in a pulp fiction journal called Weird Tales that specialized in fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories.