A review by russk
Almuric by Robert E. Howard

3.0

By 1939 I guess that Robert E Howard's publishers and/or readers were getting tired of Conan the Barbarian and said, "What if he went to space?"

Esau is the toughest, strongest, fastest man on Earth. When he gets transported to the planet Almuric, where everything is tougher, stronger and faster than him, he goes through character development and becomes the toughest, strongest, fastest man on his new planet.

All your favorite classic pulp tropes are here. We've got savage tribes where the men are brutal and the women are sexy and beautiful. A hero who either defeats all of his foes or gets knocked unconscious until it's a convenient time to wake up. A damsel who's "not like the other girls" and needs to be rescued a couple times. This sword-and-space adventure has monsters to slay, friends to make, enemies to outsmart, and slaves to free (but only the sexy slaves, not the weird ugly slaves).