One of mine is the ‘Gor’ novels of John Norman.. trashy sci-fi to trivial sword and sandal epics to some, deeply misogynistic tracts to others, I love them, even if they are the literature equivalent of Vesta meals - which I also have a fondness for! - I was delighted to find, just the other day, two new ‘Gor’ novels available on Kindle. So glad to have been proved wrong! So of course, I bought them. Though it has to be said, the cover art is sadly no longer as good as the older books.
And in catching up with Tarl Cabot's quest to resue his kidnapped old flame, I was swiftly reminded that the author is a philosophy professor writing under a pseudonym and has something to observe about modern politics, even in the pages of trashy sci-fi:
Even at the verable age of 94, he's keenly aware of what is going on in the world today, and doesn't pass up the chance to comment on it on his magnum opus.
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Wow, I remember those books from the early seventies. Yes, the cover art was great. Sos the Rope, Var the Stick, sadly they got disposed of years ago.
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