John Norman’s Tarnsman of Gor, the novel that launched one of the great science fiction sagas of all time, has just been released as an audio by Brilliance. It’s narrated by the astonishingly versatile Ralph Lister, who may well become the Voice of Gor.

According to Chronicles of Gor website, the place for all things Gorean, the second audio (Outlaw of Gor) is scheduled for August 15, 2010, Priest-Kings of Gor for October 15, 2010, and Nomads of Gor for December 15, 2010. Next year, on February 15th, 2011, Assassin of Gor will follow and on April 15, 2011, Raiders of Gor will be released.

Each book will be available in four different formats. Tarsnman for instance will be in a seven CD audio version, a single CD MP3 version, an online download, and two special Library editions with Brilliance’s unprecedented lifetime replacement guarantee. Prices vary depending on the chosen format. The total duration of the audio production is 8 hours. Subsequent books may vary in production time.

The 28 volume (and counting) Gorean Saga is E-Reads’ bestselling science fiction series. Visit the John Norman page to see a complete list of all titles in the series plus the wonderful Telnarian Trilogy, Imaginative Sex, and other classic Norman works.

Richard Curtis

Fans of John Norman’s Gorean saga (we’re up to Volume 28 and counting) will be happy to learn of the forthcoming debut of Gor on Audio.  Brilliance Audio will release Tarnsman of Gor, the first volume, on June 15th 2010.

According to Chronicles of Gor website, the place for all things Gorean, the second novel (Outlaw of Gor) is scheduled for August 15, 2010, Priest-Kings of Gor for October 15, 2010, and Nomads of Gor for December 15, 2010. Next year, on February 15th, 2011, Assassin of Gor will follow and on April 15, 2011, Raiders of Gor will be released. Each book will be available in four different formats. Tarsnman for instance will be in a seven CD audio version, a single CD MP3 version, an online download, and two special Library editions with Brilliance’s unprecedented lifetime replacement guarantee. Prices vary depending on the chosen format. The total duration of the audio production is 8 hours. Subsequent books may vary in production time.

The saga will be narrated by the astonishingly versatile Ralph Lister, and if you’ll click here you can hear some samples of his voice.  (Quicktime 6 or higher may be required)

Which voice – or voices – will he use for Gor?  We can’t wait to learn!

The Gorean Saga is E-Reads’ bestselling science fiction series. Visit the John Norman page to see a complete list of all titles in the series plus the wonderful Telnarian Trilogy, Imaginative Sex, and other classic Norman works.

Richard Curtis

We’ve been loading the 28 volumes of the Gorean Chronicles, John Norman’s bestselling cult science fiction series, onto the Kindle, and we’re told a bunch of them are now available with the rest to follow in pretty short order. Go to the Kindle store and download to your heart’s content. Don’t worry if you see a “No Image Available” icon – it takes a while for their site to grab the images from ours. Your Kindle will have the full image, such as the one displayed here for Tarnsman of Gor, the first novel in the series. And if you should enter “Gor by John Norman” in the Kindle search box and be asked “Do you mean God by John Norman,” you tell them No, we mean Gor!

Tarnsman was released by Ballantine in 1966, and over the next fifteen years or so another 24 were published by Ballantine and then DAW. The books were enormously popular and sales were tremendous – until, one day it all ground to a halt, mysteriously, like that scene at the end of War of the Worlds where a seemingly invincible alien catches cold and drops dead. What happened? Tastes in reading habits change but usually they evolve rather than fall off a cliff as Gor did.

To learn what happened, read Are John Norman’s Gors “Boy Books”?

And for the full inventory of his works, visit the John Norman page on E-Reads.

RC

John Norman’s fans simply could not ask for a better holiday gift than Kur of Gor, the 28th volume of Norman’s bestselling Gorean universe series.

Norman Invasions: the creator of E-Reads’ bestselling Gorean fantasy series delivers a wide-ranging story collection, all previously unpublished, with a handful of directly Gor-related pieces and several more stories that involve Gor-like female slavery and submission.

Many of the stories are philosophical monologues which play with existential and phenomenal ideas by discussing their philosophical underpinnings and their relation to the real world as observed with a philosophical mind-set. They are often without dialogue or even characters, merely thoughts, descriptions and speculations. Some could almost be lectures given narrative form.

Some stories are science fiction, some horror, some have “mainstream” settings. Among the characters in the various stories are a couple of talking frogs, a couple of independently-thinking computers, a fair number of philosophers and a number of clinical psychologists or psychiatrists, often analyzing or counseling computers or intelligent alien lifeforms.

For a free sample story, The Bed of Cagliostro, click here. And to learn more about John Norman and his works, visit gorchronicles.com.

The collection is available both in paperback and download.

For decades the fictional world of Gor has been John Norman’s testing and proving ground for his advanced but controversial principles of relations between male and female. Thirty-five years ago Norman produced Imaginative Sex, a guide revealing his vision and describing those principles and the philosophy behind them. Unfortunately, as social and publishing mores shifted toward the reactionary, that book fell out of favor, and there it has lain – until now. If you’re interested in learning how Norman’s books were marginalized before being restored to their current place of honor in the world of fantasy and science fiction, you can read about it in Are John Norman’s Gors “Boy-Books”?

E-Reads is proud to restore Imaginative Sex both to yearning devotees and to a new generation of Norman fans. It’s available now for download and paperback.

The titles of the first nine chapters include”Imaginative Sex: The New Sexual Revolution”, “Love, Hunters and Evolution,” “Marriage, Sex and Normality,” “Sex and the Brain,” “Marriage and the Ventilation of Emotions,” “Privacy,” “Disease,” “Requirements for Imaginative Sex,” and “Imaginative Techniques.”

Norman details and develops his theories and ideas about sex in the modern age, and in the tenth chapter, “Sensuous Fantasies: Recipes for Pleasure” he presents fifty-three scenarios designed to reintroduce fantasy and intimacy to the bedroom. Examples include “The Aphrodisiac Fantasy”; “The Rites-of-Submission Fantasy”; “The Lady Fantasy”; “The I-Am-His-Slave-Girl Fantasy”; “The Safari Fantasy” and “The Blindfolded-Lovers Fantasy” as well as many other sensuous suggestions, detailed for the enjoyment of all truly adult readers. Find out what really lies behind the philosophy of Gor and the ways in which role playing can enhance everyone’s love life.

And anyone interested in John Norman and his magical world of Gor is invited to visit The Chronicles of Gor website.

RC

The 27th volume of John Norman’s Gorean Saga is now available for purchase as a paperback. The e-book version has been available for several weeks.

Ellen is a beautiful young slave girl on the planet Gor. Yet she was not always thus. For nearly sixty years she was a woman of Earth, but life had largely passed her by. Then, following an apparently chance encounter at the opera with a strangely familiar young man, an echo from her past, she finds herself transported from Earth to Gor. Here she discovers the true identity of her kidnapper and his sinister motives.

Her fate is decided in this latest thrilling installment of John Norman’s best selling Gorean Saga.

Treat yourself to a holiday gift and fill in the gaps in your collection of Gor. For a complete list, click here.

Richard

Prize of Gor, the long-heralded 27th novel in John Norman’s Gorean saga, is now on sale as an e-book.

“What man, in his deepest heart,” asks John Norman, “does not want to own a female, to have her for his own, utterly, as a devoted, passionate, vulnerable, mastered slave, and what woman, in her deepest heart, does not want to be so intensely desired, so unqualifiedly and fiercely desired, that nothing less than her absolute ownership will satisfy a male, her master?”

To learn the answer to the author’s question, and to buy the book, click here.

And watch this page for news of Prize of Gor’s release in paperback.

RC

“What man, in his deepest heart,” asks John Norman, “does not want to own a female, to have her for his own, utterly, as a devoted, passionate, vulnerable, mastered slave, and what woman, in her deepest heart, does not want to be so intensely desired, so unqualifiedly and fiercely desired, that nothing less than her absolute ownership will satisfy a male, her master?”

In a letter about Prize of Gor, the soon to be released 27th novel in his phenomenally popular Gorean Chronicles, Norman reasserts the philosophy that has intoxicated fans and appalled conventional readers. As for the latter, Norman asserts, “Perhaps some people cannot even understand such things, such desire, such passion. Let them then cling to their tepidities. Gor is for those who do understand such things.”

If you are among those who have cast off your tepidities, Prize of Gor will be a rewarding if not rapturous read for you. Its protagonist is an older woman taken to Gor and given a drug that restores her youth. What exactly is the prize of the novel’s title? “Prize of Gor is a Kajira novel,” writes Norman. “The notion of ‘prize’ is quite Gorean, given the typical Gorean celebration of the intelligence and beauty of the human female, a form of life so remarkable, fascinating, exciting, and desirable to the Gorean male that he is typically content with nothing less than its possession.”

Hear John Norman talk about his heroine:

… a college professor specializing in Feminist Studies, and such, whom life, largely due to the constraints of her ideology, self-image, and such, has largely passed by. She has never known love, for instance. Her life is closing, darkening about the edges, a life, as she now suspects, largely misguided, worthless, and wasted. In her youth, however, she was incredibly beautiful, and was so even in her first teaching years. Have we not all seen photos of elderly women as they were in their youth, and marveled at their beauty?…Let us see how her theories hold up, once she is at a man’s feet, young, beautiful, and collared. She will learn the ways of Gor, and, in doing so, will learn her lost womanhood and its hitherto neglected possibilities, glories, and riches. She will then find herself, to her astonishment, on this incredible and vibrant world, a prize, one to become no more than a domestic animal which, at the merest word of a male, must kneel, press her lips to a whip, and hope to be found pleasing.

Watch this page for more news about Prize of Gor.

– Richard Curtis

John Norman’s Gorean Saga is far and away E-Reads’ most successful series. Originally comprising 25 titles, Norman added a 26th volume, Witness of Gor (pictured right),  in 2001 to satisfy decades of speculation by loyal fans that there might be another work germinating in the author’s brain.

Since then, those fans have been back in the rumor mill wondering if there’s going to be 27th volume. The answer? There certainly is, and I’m looking at the text as we speak. It’s my pleasure to announce the forthcoming publication of Prize of Gor. I can’t reveal the story yet, but take my word for it – it’s well worth the wait.

We’re rushing it into print in time for the holidays. Watch this space for more news!

- Richard Curtis