When they talk of the Kings arriving on ships I was thinking like Viking long ships. In the time and place of the story apparently we (now) are the ancient race that had perished long before their time. However as you read you find very peculiar things are going on in this universe. Okay so right off, this book obviously takes place in a spin-off world of Robert E.

As the back cover describes 'Villainy most foul.' This book is about the dastardly plan to kill the emperor of the seven worlds and place the blame on the barbarian king Lord Valeron of Branarius. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series. Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.Īs an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. offutt, had his name in all lower-case letters. Andrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author.

My Lord Barbarian by Andrew J. Offutt