Book description
The party of treason in Ar is triumphant. After the disaster of the
delta campaign Ar is substantially defenseless. The forces of Cos, and
her allies, are welcomed into the city as liberators. Ar's Station,
which held out so valiantly against superior forces in the north, is
denounced as traitorous. Veterans of the delta campaign are despised and
ridiculed. Patriotism and manhood are denigrated. Ar's walls are being
dismantled willingly by her own citizens to the music of flute girls.
Lawlessness and propaganda are rampant. Marlenus, the great ubar, who
might have organized and led a resistance, who might have rallied the
city, is presumed dead, somewhere in the Voltai mountains. The Home
Stone of Ar's Station is displayed in Ar as an object of contempt.
Marcus, of Ar's Station, wishes to regain the Home Stone of his beloved
city, for no city can die whose Home Stone survives. Cabot is concerned
with a warrior's vengeance upon sedition and treachery, and, in
particular, with meeting one who stands high amongst the conspirators, a
beautiful woman now enthroned as ubara, whose name is Talena. John
Norman is creator of the Gorean Saga, a series of novels spanning dozens
of titles that began in 1967 with TARNSMAN OF GOR and that are
considered to be cult classics. He has also produced a three-installment
fictional series, Telnarian Histories, plus two other fiction works and
a nonfiction paperback entitled IMAGINATIVE SEX. He continues to write
new novels in the Gorean saga, notably WITNESS OF GOR (2002) and PRIZE
OF GOR (2008), both published by E-Reads. At Gor Chronicles, a web site
specially created for his tremendous fan following, one may read
everything there is to know about this unique fictional culture. Mr.
Norman was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1931. He is married and has
three children.
