Book description
The creator of Gor delivers a wide-ranging story collection, all
previously unpublished, with a handful of directly Gor-related pieces
and several more stories that involve Gor-like female slavery and
submission. Many of the stories are philosophical monologues which play
with existential and phenomenal ideas by discussing their philosophical
underpinnings and their relation to the real world as observed with a
philosophical mind-set. They are often without dialogue or even
characters, merely thoughts, descriptions and speculations. Some could
almost be lectures given narrative form. Some stories are SF, some are
horror, some have mainstream settings. Among the characters in the
various stories are a couple of talking frogs, a couple of
independently-thinking computers, a fair number of philosophers and a
number of clinical psychologists or psychiatrists, often analyzing or
counseling computers or intelligent alien lifeforms. 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.
