Witness of Gor

Gor #26

by John Norman

Ar, defeated, shamed, systematically looted, is occupied by Cosian forces. Perhaps Marlenus of Ar, alone, the great ubar, could recall the men of Ar to the recollection of their Home Stone and its meaning. But it is thought that he perished in the Voltai. Young women from Earth brought to Gor are commonly brought for the markets, to be branded and collared, and sold as the delicious, lovely livestock they are. Naturally Goreans regard these women as barbarians, for they do not speak Gorean, and know little of civilization, Gorean civilization. They have little in common save their beauty, and their newly acquired fear of their masters. Their naivety and ignorance, while sometimes troublesome, are occasionally of considerable value to a master. An instance of such a case is the young woman whom we shall call Janice, for that name was put on her as a Gorean slave name. In the prison pits of piratical Treve, a bandit city in the Voltai mountains, there exists a large man, a chained prisoner, an amnesiac who believes himself to be of the Gorean peasantry. The nature and even the existence of this prisoner, strangely enough, is a closely guarded secret. In order to better keep this secret, it is decided that his servant and warder had best be no native Gorean, but, ideally, one muchly ignorant of the history and politics of Gor. For this purpose, Janice is purchased and brought to Treve. Of her charge she knows only what she has been told, but even that may prove to be too much.

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Ebooks, Fiction, Erotica, Adult

767 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

John Norman, real name John Lange, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1931. His best known works, the Gor series, currently span 36 books written 1966 (Tarnsman of Gor) to 2021 (Avengers of Gor). Three installments of the Telnarian Histories, plus three other fiction works and a non-fiction paperback. Mr. Norman is married and has three children.

Reviews

[Choko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well! One more chapter of the Gorian saga is over. I think the prevailing question is why do we persist with book after book of terrible writing and editing and keep coming back for the crumbs of storyline Norman graces us with amongst the sea of propaganda and redundant useless information. I have no idea! Three quarters of the book you beat your head with the brick of a book and wonder why are you doing this to yourself, but than he gets the action going and you still feel the elusive something which makes the regular characters compelling and you just want to know what happens with them and the strange world they live on ultimately ... . Somehow by this point they have gotten under your skin and you care, despite the efforts of the author to ruin it all for you! So, I guess I will be on to the next one and when I reach the last book, it better have been worth it!!!!!

[Steven Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I own and have read all of the previous 25 Gor books by this author. When I started the series in my late teens, it was some of the most erotic material I have ever read. Compared to today's material, it rates a meh for eroticism, but maybe I am just cynical.

About the same writing as I remember, but the electronic versions have a few misplaced words and some other minor editing mistakes. I don't like the huge blocks of text, especially during the political wrangling as it gets boring and tiresome fast.

[Jason Bleckly · Rating 1 out of 5]

In the authour bio at the back it states DAW publishing refused to publish it. After 12 years of no-one willing to publish it, it came out through vanity press.

DAW and the rest of the publishing industry were absolutely correct in their decision not to publish it. It is clear that between the previous book and this one John must have suffered some sort of brain seixure. The book is complete and utter crap.

[Keith Lovell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Probably my least favorite in the series.