Planet of the Complete Bloody Psychopaths, Part 4

[bellatrys]

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, © 1966Make sure you have your antacids handy for this, the ride gets even bumpier

Comments

[voxwoman]

All I can think of now is Klaus Kinski in that tiny, Zap Brannigan uniform made of leather instead of velour, climbing the ladder with that other fellow underneath, looking up his skirt, and the MST3K robots groaning in horror.

I would seriously undertake writing Housewives of Gor (children - that's another thing eerily absent from that planet - maybe they're all fed to the Preist-Kings?), but I really don't want to re-read any of those books to get the style even remotely close. I would have to spend another decade breaking myself of the bad writing habits I'd have to learn to do a proper parody.

[archangelbeth]

Perhaps reading the parodies would be sufficient? I, er, seem to have found a paragraph I enjoy far, far too much. *points at icon, blushing*

[voxwoman]

Are you trying to corrupt me into not only writing fanfic, but starting with Fanfic of Gor??? Oh, Evil Temptress, I curse at thee!

I think I'd have to have 2 or 5 flame deaths (it's a drink I "invented" at a Balticon many decades ago, consisting of grain alcohol and blue) before I could properly write such a thing.

[archangelbeth]

Surely it would be antifan-fic of Gor!

Besides, I already put Bimbiras into GURPS IOU. And Kajones. So it's someone else's turn... *shiftyeyes*

Dark Horse will have much to answer for

[bellatrys]

when the gods of Classics and Neoclassical Lit come down from the Mountain to restore the Balance...

*sighs with satisfaction*

[deiseach]

Thank you for that. Perfectly lovely and a much-needed antidote to wash the taste out of our mouths, so to speak, in its modality.

aw shucks

[bellatrys]

No, it's really good, it addresses that RL logical outcome which is completely ignored by Norman, and I am trying like hell not to go from merely Chaotic to Ebol by clamping down on all the things I could say about why it's not a shocker to me that a philosophy professor could be completely oblivious to Primary World Plausibility of any and every kind...

It's actually much older, back to antiquity

[bellatrys]

It's more of Norman showing off his pseudo-scholarliness, with bits of ancienct Assyria (different from Syria but not sure if he realizes that) along with the Spartans.

a helpless librarian

Other parody-fic idea: the slavers screw up on their dimensional coordinates and end up trying to kidnap one of Garth Nix's Librarians...

Re: Part the Second.

[redstarrobot]

I think perhaps the best literary revelation I've had from stumbling across this series is the realization of the existence of Modesty Blaise fanfic. (Because, let's be honest, I'm not going to track down any John Norman.)