Re: (Worst) Tarnsman of Gor (Gor, volume 1) by John Norman

On Jul 22, 2025, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan wrote
(in article <mea79uFfsrnU1@mid.individual.net>):

In article<105oi60$19b1$1@dont-email.me>, Graham<zotzlists@gmail.com>  wrote:

On 22/07/2025 14:04, James Nicoll wrote:

There's much less BDSM than
the series reputation would lead one to expect.

>
As well as I can remember forty years down the line, that sort of
thing started as one feature of the stories and over a few volumes
became the main point.

>
The books were decent planetary romances with a bit more sex than
Burroughs until such time as Tarl Cabot himself got enslaved and never
completely recovered. That actually turned out to be a decent book with
the epic "**This** is the homestone of Port Kar" sequence, but after that
the kink continued to rise at the expense of the story.
>
IMHO, Lynn would do better to start (re-start?) the Dray Prescot books
than the Gor ones.

He could also look at Stirling’s Lords of Creation books. The first two,
set on an extremely Burroughs-like but with twists Venus and Mars were fairly
good. Stirling is (finally!) threatening to bring out the long (very long)
awaited third.

We’ll just say that Stirling’s Mars is the anti-Gor not least due to how
the Princess of Mars spends so much time rescuing her Earther boyfriend.