12/14/2023 0 Comments Gor slave market![]() ![]() ![]() She was barefoot, and as her eyes shyly met mine, I saw they were blue and deferential. She wore a sleeveless garment of diagonal stripes, the brief skirt of which terminated some inches above her knees. Through the opening came a young girl, somewhat younger than myself, with blond hair bound back. He clapped his hands twice, and the panel slid back again. On the other side, he finds himself in a strange environment and has a heartwarming reunion with his father:Ī mere 14 pages in, a strong female protagonist arrives on the scene: The MC makes a run for it, an alien ship descends, and he feels compelled to enter it. Tarl wonders why the hell the letter is dated three centuries ago, while the reader– not given an opportunity or a reason to be invested in the MC, let alone his absentee father– struggles to care. It indicates that SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS IS GOING TO HAPPEN. He opens it and finds the obligatory cryptic letter, dated 1640 for reasons that will be neither explained nor explored for the balance of the book. Wandering around, he finds a metallic envelope with his name on it. Ready to get away from it all, our intrepid MC is dropped off in the middle of the woods by a friend, and borrows camping equipment from him he is apparently unaware that nothing good happens to MCs in the woods. Oddly enough, the author is also a professor at a college in Northeastern America. We then find out that his career is as a university professor at a college in Northeastern America n College. Apparently, it means “deserving of limited praise or commendation.” The author is apparently familiar with this relatively obscure word, perhaps from publisher’s rejection letters. The protagonist is a certain Tarl Cabot after revealing that he never knew his dad and that his mom died when he was six, he elegantly explains his childhood:īiographical details are tedious, so suffice it to say that I was a bright child, fairly large for my age, and was given a creditable upbringing by an aunt who furnished everything that a child might need, with the possible exception of love. The books take place on a “Counter-Earth”– a planet purportedly in our solar system but hidden– and are infamous for egregious abuse of scifi/fantasy tropes and a depiction of women as sexually submissive and enjoying slavery. ![]() I’m a new recapper, and my beat is “The Chronicles of Gor.” It’s a series of 26 books, written by Professor John Norman, which straddle the line between “so bad they’re good” and “so bad they’re horrible.” This recap is of the first book of the series, Tarnsman of Gor. ![]()
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