Book description
MARINERS OF GOR is a direct sequel to SWORDSMEN OF GOR and the action
picks up immediately from the end of the earlier book. Many on Gor do
not believe the great ship, the ship of Tersites, the lame, scorned,
half-blind, half-mad shipwright, originally of Port Kar exists. Surely
it is a matter of no more than legend.
In the previous book, however, SWORDSMEN OF GOR, we learn that the
great ship, commissioned by unusual warriors for a mysterious mission,
was secretly built in the northern forests, and brought down the
Alexandra to Thassa, the sea, beginning her voyage to the "World's
End," hazarding waters beyond the "farther islands," from
which no previous ship had returned.
In MARINERS OF GOR one learns the history and nature of the voyage
through vast, dangerous, and uncharted waters, a voyage beset with
dangers, both within and without the ship. One encounters storms and
calms, fearful marine life and volcanic seas, hardships, treacheries,
intrigues, desertions, and mutinies, and entrapments in ice and later
amongst the thick, broad tendrils of the narcotic Vine Sea, and,
eventually, once come to the "World's End," one learns what
has been the intent and meaning of this mysterious enterprise, and the
human ferocities into which the mariners find themselves introduced.
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.
