Book description
In a far future, two anthropologists, gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio
Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naive Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to
himself, carries ancient genes, of a sort no longer welcome on Home
World, have been assigned to conduct a study on Abydos, a deeply
forested, wilderness planet of little note, whose only evidence of
civilization is a single enclave, small, rough, dingy Company Station, a
fueling station occasionally utilized by star freighters. Within the
forest, some days from Company Station, are the Pons, a group of small,
simian-seeming organisms which seems near the crossroads between animal
and rational creature, between nature and culture. They would seem to
constitute an ideal object of study with respect to the origins of, and
foundations of, civilization. How came it about, so to speak, that
something once emerged from the lair, or cave, that was different,
radically so? What lies at the beginning? The results of the study have
already been politically prescribed on Home World, that the Pons are to
shed light on humanity, that it is, in its original and unspoiled
nature, polite, sweet, kind, deferent, diffident, social,
noncompetitive, and innocent. Both Rodriguez and Brenner have a trait in
common, however, which may explain why they have been sent, exiled in a
sense, to such an out-of-the-way locale. Both seek the truth. They enter
the forest. 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.
