Book description
Ar, defeated, shamed, systematically looted, is occupied by Cosian
forces. Perhaps Marlenus of Ar, alone, the great ubar, could recall the
men of Ar to the recollection of their Home Stone and its meaning. But
it is thought that he perished in the Voltai. Young women from Earth
brought to Gor are commonly brought for the markets, to be branded and
collared, and sold as the delicious, lovely livestock they are.
Naturally Goreans regard these women as barbarians, for they do not
speak Gorean, and know little of civilization, Gorean civilization. They
have little in common save their beauty, and their newly acquired fear
of their masters. Their naivety and ignorance, while sometimes
troublesome, are occasionally of considerable value to a master. An
instance of such a case is the young woman whom we shall call Janice,
for that name was put on her as a Gorean slave name. In the prison pits
of piratical Treve, a bandit city in the Voltai mountains, there exists
a large man, a chained prisoner, an amnesiac who believes himself to be
of the Gorean peasantry. The nature and even the existence of this
prisoner, strangely enough, is a closely guarded secret. In order to
better keep this secret, it is decided that his servant and warder had
best be no native Gorean, but, ideally, one muchly ignorant of the
history and politics of Gor. For this purpose, Janice is purchased and
brought to Treve. Of her charge she knows only what she has been told,
but even that may prove to be too much. 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.
