Loved the variety of characters.

I have not read a lot of "fan fiction" before, but I was not terribly pleased with this collection. It is no easy task to imitate the style of another, and some of the tales in this collection thankfully did not attempt to do so. Unfortunately, not all of the authors were so wise. Regardless, the editors gathered stories generally inspired by the Conan ones, and in my humble opinion these are not sufficiently 'inspired' to justify a reader spending the time forgiving the myriad foibles each author's interpretation suffers from throughout the telling