Gor, a Counter-Earth, is the alternate-world setting for John Norman's "Chronicles of Gor," a series of 26 already-published novels that combine philosophy, erotica and science fiction. In- & off-line followers of the philosophies & life-style outlined in the books come known as Goreans.

Summary

Gor is an elaborately elaborated globe within terms of flora, animal, & customs. Norman — considered the competent classical scholar — often delights inside ethnography, populating his planet with a equivalents of Roman, Greek, Native American, Viking, and more cultures. a Gorean man keep close at h& advanced architectural & medical skills (including life extensiin), however remain primitive in a fields of transport and arms (at roughly the level of Classical Mediterranean civilization) due to restrictions on technology imposed by a shadowy insectoid opinion metal money, the Priest-Kings, world health organization viciously suppress innovation beyond the certain point.

Virtually all of a novels in the series come action escapade, using numerous of the military engagements borrowing liberally from either historic ones, like the trireme battles of ancient Greece and the castle sieges of mediaeval Europe. Ar, the Rome-like city where many of the novels come placed, maintains the "margin of desolation" similar thereto of Mesopotamia's Gu-Edin.

A 1st book in the series, Tarnsman of Gor, opens by owning a select few scenes super redolent of the number 1 book of the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs; both feature a protagonist narrating his risky venture fallowing existence as if by magic transported to an additional globe. These parallels prevent when a number one couple books.

In Gor, men come a absolute rulers & women come typically chattel; their interactions often feature a machismic stereotypes of Gorean society. This hwhen led numbers of to regard a works as blatantly misogynistic. (For farther elaboration on the psychosexual content of Norman's writings, look at John Norman.)

Criticism has as well been levelled at Norman's prose, which is often fraught by having unneeded diction & hokey dialogue. Passages — especially around books late in a series, whilst the protagonist begins to assimilate into Gorean society — once in a while veer hit into philosophic tangents lampooning feminism and liberalism at length.

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