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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (Worst) Tarnsman of Gor (Gor, volume 1) by John Norman
Date: 22 Jul 2025 19:32:14 GMT
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In article <105oi60$19b1$1@dont-email.me>, Graham  <zotzlists@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 22/07/2025 14:04, James Nicoll wrote:
>> There's much less BDSM than
>> the series reputation would lead one to expect.
>
>   As well as I can remember forty years down the line, that sort of 
>thing started as one feature of the stories and over a few volumes 
>became the main point.
>

The books were decent planetary romances with a bit more sex than
Burroughs until such time as Tarl Cabot himself got enslaved and never
completely recovered.  That actually turned out to be a decent book with
the epic "**This** is the homestone of Port Kar" sequence, but after that
the kink continued to rise at the expense of the story.

IMHO, Lynn would do better to start (re-start?) the Dray Prescot books
than the Gor ones.
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