@ the guys in conan lore, who can replace...

[Touchii]

Since I cant post there, fu FC but still love you. 2 writers who can do it, abercombie and Feist,the last one based nakor on mako's charachter in conan the barbarian, Peter V brett wont handle it, if David Gemmel was alive he would be the one to continue the saga of conan

[blynd]

id back you on feist he is excellent but id also throw Terry Brooks into the mix his epic catalog of shanarah stories he brings both the world and the characters to life with real quality.

[fraana]

if David Gemmel was alive he would be the one to continue the saga of conan

not sure, cause gemmel always wrote about good heroes (remember the way of life of Druss), but the cimmerian world is more complex than that.
it's not about heroes who live with a code with just right&wrong.
it's about guys who can throw away their fears facing a monster from cthulhu, and have a great time with women and booze right after...

[Touchii]

He also wrote about skilgannon and waylander, both were badass,and Druss almost lost his temper, but the world is almost the same, its brutal

[Kurt2013]

id back you on feist he is excellent but id also throw Terry Brooks into the mix his epic catalog of shanarah stories he brings both the world and the characters to life with real quality.

Feist would be fun. Imagine:

"Chapter 1:

Conan stood in the hallway.
..."

"Chapter 2:
Yasmela pondered.
...."

"Chapter 3:
Thoth-Amun cried.
..."

I liked the books, but this trademark did go on through the whole betrayal of krondor series, i believe

[Touchii]

Haha Kurt, that one made my day, but I think Feist can pull it off though,I forgot Sean Russel, he isnt that bad

[blynd]

You missed out the stands about and ponders stuff for a chapter or two lol

Still like his stuff though.

[Kurt2013]

Oh, and if Mr. Martin would write Conan...there would soon be no "historic" characters left...because they would die of criminal punishment, fall of walls drunk, die of lotus overdose or drown
Not to mention those slain in combat, sacrificed or eaten by demons...and chances are...he might even get Conn and Zenobia killed and Conan horrible mutilated...

[Unutterable]

Martin would be a terrible choice for conan. He doesn't write characters, he writes events and places and fills them with expendable straw men.

We just keep falling for it because we expect fantasy to be about characters.

[Touchii]

Martin would be a terrible choice for conan. He doesn't write characters, he writes events and places and fills them with expendable straw men.

We just keep falling for it because we expect fantasy to be about characters.

David Gemmell wrote about charachters, yes I know I talk too much about him, but he was the last writer of heroic fantasy, back to Feist, didnt he wrote the brilliant empire triology with Janny Wurts? Game of thrones is childs play compared to the game of council in the tsurani world