A Curious Convergence

[bellatrys]

My next entry in the Slashers of Gor fanart genre, "Privacy", is up at slashersofgor - it's NSFW, with "artistic nudity" as they say, and explicit eroticism. Everything the same as for "Reunion" with the addition of Aiko 3 for Talena

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[smurasaki]

"A lengthier and more eloquent dismissal comes from Edward Crabtree in the Leicester Science Fiction Group's zine, but it all comes to the same thing: disinformation, aka lies, designed to serve the interests of the speaker's group and discredit the opposition without ever providing any evidence for their claims."

Yack. I read that linked defense, well...up until this (and I now quote Mr. Crabtree): "Nor is Norman's prose style at all bad: at its best I am reminded of the steely economy of Ernest Hemingway and there are often moments of poetic lyricism and sombre contemplation to be found in it."

Tell me he's joking, please, please, _please_ tell me this is a joke. But no, there's no sign that it is, not even when he praises the "narrative sophistication." Narrative...sophistication...????? O.o WHERE!?

Drug use. The only explanation for what his fans see in his work is drug use. Heavy, heavy, probably highly experimental, drug use.

Mac

It's crackfic, I tell you!

[bellatrys]

The words alone are the drugs. He's just got it worse than many, since a lot of the Votaries will happily admit that the prose style stinks like old dead fish on a sunny wharf.

--Note that despite Crabtree's tone of being a disinterested literary type, he gives his address at the end as Gor, which is kind of like signing your fic "Mrs. Orlando Bloom" when it comes to dispassion and all that.

Not in anything I've read so far.

[bellatrys]

Including the old womens-POV one. Granted it was a long time ago, but I was also, ahem, shelving bodice-ripping romance novels and James Clavel novels, and those were a *lot* more explicit.

There's a lot of coy "I opened my knees wider, in my oh so scanty skirt, not wearing any underpants" but you don't even get any manly thrusting or even anything more explicit than "claimed". It's like 1970s Harlequins.

Which, again, is pretty tame by pulp standards, even for the 1960s. I think I've got a couple around, including a Bond novel, I'll have to look to see how they compare, because I certainly *remember* them as being a lot more indicative of Tab A-Slot B without actually "going there."

LOL

[bellatrys]

Very Spartan of them, it would be.