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... )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, © 1966

::waves:: to furikku et al: a big shout-out to all my fellow truculently-critical Amazons in the trenches - there's a special treat for you at the end, I'm saving up John Norman's special new ebook preface containing John Norman's all third person description of John Norman's heroic stand against the ( Read more... )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, © 1966

The city of Ar must have contained more than a hundred thousand cylinders [ie towers], each ablaze with the lights of the Planting Feast. I did not question that Ar was the greatest city of all known Gor. It was a magnificent and beautiful city, a worthy setting for the jewel of empire, that awesome ( Read more... )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, c. 1966

After about the fifth or sixth reiteration of the (usually-male-made) claim that "the first ones weren't so bad, the misogyny and male dominance stuff didn't come in till later," I resolved, in my Chaotic way, to challenge this dogma and put it to the test. First I had to locate a copy; I really didn ( Read more... )