Series
Thongor
Robert M. Price & Lin Carter · 6 novels · 2 novellas · 6 novelettes · 17 short stories · 2 collections · 1965–2025
Thongor of Lemuria follows a barbarian warrior on the lost continent of Lemuria as he battles sorcerers, monsters, and rival kingdoms in a sword-and-sorcery setting inspired by Robert E. Howard's Conan. Lin Carter's series, beginning with The Wizard of Lemuria, was continued decades later by other writers, including Robert M. Price, after Carter's death.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Thongor at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s6
- 1970s5
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
- 2000s1
- 2010s13
- 2020s6
Shape
6 novels · 2 novellas · 6 novelettes · 17 short stories · 2 collections
2 authors
reads like:sword and sorceryquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 92% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book12 of 33 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Thongor in the Valley of Demonsdarkest · calmest
- The Wizard of Lemuriabrightest · most intense