--Yes, post-spamming my own blog, but a few short takes while I'm working on longer stuff means that I at least get stuff out before I forget it, and if I do several then I feel less bad about posting nothing for a couple days, altho' it really doesn't work that way, I know.

Someone on my flist linked this review (sorry, I don't remember who and I ( Read more... )

or, Get up on your pedestal, girl, so I can worship you - don't make me smack your ass back to Terra!Having had the chance to see and judge for themselves, many readers are now asking questions concerning the judgment - nay, sanity - not just of Dark Horse's editors but also the editors of the past big name publishing companies which saw fit to ( Read more... )

aka "Outlaw of Gor, © 1967, John Norman

Oh, before I forget - we do find out what colour Tarl's eyes are in Book II -
"I first met Tarl Cabot at a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire, where we had both accepted first-year teaching appointments. He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save ( Read more... )

Okay, we know that they are liars, proven so already by the handful of excerpted pages out of the nigh 250 of Tarnsman of Gor that I have already shown you in the prior reviews. But Outlaw of Gor, the second one, is actually far worse.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to pull out a few excerpts to show just how much more dehumanizing and degrading ( Read more... )

tammy212 has a post on the ethical issues of promoting the Gorean worldview in which she points out that there are not just self-interested reasons as we women worry about encouraging a worldview that depicts us as "natural slaves", but that (shades of Kant) the Gorean mindset, as an exaggerated, valorized version of run-of-the-mill traditional patriarchy ( Read more... )

I suspected this was coming, too, but I kind of hoped John-Tarl would show some restraint - yes, I know, after having Tarl-Stu defeat multiple armed warriors after having been beaten and in chains for nine bloody days I really shouldn't think anything beyond him, and after the Noble Black Stallion Tarn showed up to rescue him I should have not just ( Read more... )

aka "Outlaw of Gor", ©1967 by John NormanIt's too bad I couldn't really have bet on my surmise re the City Of Scary Dominant Women, because I would have cleaned up there ( Read more... )

Foreword to the ebook edition of Tarnsman of Gor, Copyright © 1966 by John Lange
Published by e-reads, New York, ISBN 1-58586-224-X

Warning! Warning! Please put away all cats, coffee and other beverages, fasten your seatbelts and return your tray tables to the upright position - we have Author Sign!

( John Norman says John Norman is the warmest, kindest, most wonderful human being John Norman's ever known )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor," © 1966 John Norman

[raps podium] Hey! Anyone here never ever hear of Barsoom before? No hands going up at all? Anybody out there who didn't already know that everyone knows that Gor is a total rip-off of John Carter, with added testosterone & misogyny? --That's what I thought ( Read more... )

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