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Tarnsman5/30/2023 So why do sci-fi/fantasy fans turn their anger more on Gor and not those? I’d argue that it’s because it makes the fig leaf of “sword and planet adventure” too blatant, putting it in a different standard. More interesting than the blocky prose is how the series got its reputation: I mean, there’s certainly no shortage of outright and far more explicit sleaze fiction, whether in the 1960s-70s or today. This isn’t as present in the first installment, but Cabot is still not exactly the most ideal protagonist. The series devolved fairly quickly into what is best known as slave sleaze, where it becomes filled with blocky rants about how men holding women as slaves is the best, most natural form of society, and how many Earthwomen suddenly find themselves loving being slaves. As transported Earthman Tarl Cabot goes to a world of barbarians, slavery, and giant birds (the titular “tarns”), a clunky narrative ensues. What that is is a somewhat sleazier and really, really blatant John Carter of Mars knockoff. Yet you’d never know it from the beginning entry, Tarnsman of Gor. The Gor series is perhaps the most infamous science fiction one ever.
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