Gor was a world of slaves and beautiful women, of human domination by the alien, secret Priest-Kings. And it was also the world of Talena, tempestuous daughter of the greatest warlord of Gor. She waited for the man who who could subdue her-the man who would be her Master.
But was Tarl Cabot that man?
But nothing was as it had been. His home city of Ko-ro-ba was destroyed, razed until not one stone remained standing. His beautiful mate, Talena, was dead or vanished. His family and friends were scattered
He was an outcast, with every hand against him. His home city had been destroyed, his loved ones scattered or killed. And that was at the orders of the Priest-Kings, those mysterious beings who ruled absolutely over Gor.
No man had ever soon a Priest-King. They were said to dwell somewhere in the Mountains of Sardar. And none who entered that forbidden land ever returned alive.
Nonetheless, Tarl Cabot headed into the Mountains of Sardar!
There were four major tribes of Wagon Peoples, living of their herds of constantly moving bosk, riding their savage fighting kaiila, the women secured in the Wagons they called Home. Fierce, proud and intensely suspicious, the Wagon Peoples had a nasty habit of killing strangers o sight. In fact, their word for stranger was synonymous with enemy. When they couldn't find strangers, they fought among themselves. Thus, all sensible folk avoided them except at certain times of the year when trading took place. For despite their simple way of lie, this piratical people was rich-rich with stolen goods, jewels, slaves taken in raids.
On the Plain of Turia where Tarl finally found them, all creatures, all men, fled before the thundering herds of the Wagon People.
Except Tarl Cabot.
He alone stood, and waited.
And finally began to move toward the clouds of oncoming dust that might hold his death.
He knew nothing of his intended victim, save that the man had taken part in the savage tarn races at the Arena of Ar. And all he knew of the man he was to avenge was a name.
The name was that of Tarl Cabot, the great warrior and servant of the all-powerful Priest-Kings. And that was strange.
Because the true name of Kuurus was Tarl Cabot!
Tarl Cabot was headed for the sinkhole of the planet, a teeming den of iniquity. And that was no place of an honest warrior from Ko-ro-ba.
But he was no longer Tarl Cabot, the warrior. Now he was only Bosk...a miserable slave!
Elinor Brinton of Earth, wealthy, beautiful, enjoying all the privileges of her sex and social position, finds herself prisoner in the camp of Targo, slave merchant of Gor. Here, caged with other beautiful captives-Ute, faithful friend, compassionate, a mere fool in Elinor's eyes; Lana, the favorite, most beautiful and spoiled of all-she must learn to give up her self-pride, to submit, to obey the bidding o men and call them Master.
Trained in the luxurious city of Ko-ro-ba, she is taught the sensuous skills-the provocative dances and subtle movements-of a Gorean pleasure slave, endures the humiliation of being sold and the punishments for disobedience-the five stranded Gorean lash, the branding iron, and the dreaded slave box.
Proud, virginal, she is determined to be no man's slave-and to escape. Then she meets Rask of Treve, fierce tarnsman and outlaw, known and feared throughout Gor for his deadly skill in battle, and his mastery of the art of bending women to his will….
Talena, daughter of Gor's greatest ruler and once Tarl's queen.
Elizabeth Cardwell who had been Tarl's comrade in two of his greatest exploits.
Verna, haughty chief of the untamed panther women of the Northern forests.
Hunters of Gor finally reveals the fate of these three--as Tarl Cabot ventures into the wilderness to pit his skill and his life against the brutal cunning of Gorean outlaws and enemy warriors.
Somewhere in the harsh lands of transplanted Norsemen was the first foothold of the alien Others. Somewhere up there was one such who waited for Tarl. Somewhere up there was Tarl's confrontation with his real destiny--was he to remain a rich merchant-slaver of Port Kar or become again a defender of two worlds against cosmic enslavement.
Marauders of Gor is one of the truly great adventures of the Gorean saga. It brings in barbaric peoples, vivid adventure, fierce aliens, and the clash of male-female emotions stripped of civilized pretension that has made John Norman the best selling writer of high fantasy adventure.
Tarl Cabot could no longer linger in Port Kar-now he must act on behalf of the Priest-Kings, on behalf of Gor, and on behalf of Gor's teeming, unsuspecting, twin world known as Earth.
Evidence pointed to the great wasteland of the Tahari, the desert known only to the clannish, militant tribes of desert-wanderers. There must Cabot go. There among the feuds, along the trails of slavers, beyond the forbidding salt mines to a rendezvous with treachery, with a woman warlord, with a bandit chief, and with the monster intelligences from the worlds of steel.
John Norman at his best.
There was a girl, once Judy Thornton of earth, found in the wilderness of Gor, Captured, as such lovely strangers were on that ruthless world, she was to undergo the training that would make of her a slave girl of great value. But unknown to her captors was the fact that she was a tool of the Kurii, that she carried a programmed message that imperilled the future of Gor. It was for possession of her mind and body that Priest-King and Kur-monster battled, while a planet went its way unsuspecting that its very fate was also locked within the slave collar that graced her neck.
First, there are the Kurii, the monsters from space who are about to invade that world. Second there are the Gorean warriors, men whose fighting ferocity is incomparable. Third, there are the slave girls, who are both beasts of burden and objects of desire.
All three kinds of beasts come into action in this thrilling novel as the Kurii establish their first beachhead on Gor's polar cap. Here is a John Norman epic that takes Tarl Cabot from the canals of Port Kar to the taverns of Lydius, the tents of the Sardar Fair, and to a grand climax among the red hunters of the Arctic ice pack.
When the shield ring of the much feared Kurii falls into the possession of a mysterious black explorer, it becomes vital to the Priest-Kings that Tarl Cabot himself regain that ancient product of an alien science. His quest brings him to the unmapped interior of the great equatorial rain-forests and into new dangers without parallel.
Here are jungle kingdoms and tropical trade cities, fierce beasts and fiercer men. And at the heart of this full-bodied Gorean novels is a lost city-and a linkage of the loveliest enemy agents ever lured from the cities of far-off Terra.
Jason Marshall's startling adventures make constantly fascinating reading as he is made to be the slave of a haughty woman, then into her fighting champion, and finally amid the turmoil of primitive warfare to seek his liberty in order to search for his lost love amid the slave marts of that alien and turbulent planet.
His intent was to find the girl who had been enslaved with him. But that quest thrust him smack in the middle of the war that raged between Imperial Ar and the Salerian Confederation--and the secret schemes of the pirate armada that sought control of the mighty trading artery of the fighting cities..
Now, in the heat of a desperate naval battle against overwhelming odds, Jason faced the pivotal hours of his Gorean career. For him victory would mean a homeland, a warrior's honors, and the lovely Earthgirl who was the prize he had long sought. Defeat would mean degradation worse than the chains he had once escaped.
Guardsman of Gor is the blazing climax of this saga of one man against an entire world.
But Tarl refused their offer, for Half-Ear was more valuable to the Priest-Kings alive than to the Kur dead. And now, he knew it was imperative for him to save that monster from the doom that would fast overtake him.
This meant venturing into the forbidden Barrens of Gor--a vast land of plains and prairies whose cruel masters were tribes of savage red riders and where civilized men were always prey and their women mere trophies of the hunt!
Tarl Cabot returns in one of his greatest adventures.
For the Kur had united the enemies of the tribe that held Cabot, and death and destruction were unleased. Out of the plains came riding hordes of feud-driven braves, from the skies came a host of maddened tarn-riders, and even among the slave girls held by the blood brothers there was devilish treason.
Blood Brothers of Gor is one of the great John Norman epics. It is a long novel of constant action, told in depth and detail, of a struggle fought for the fate of a world where strong men clash and beautiful women await their victors.
But a chained slave she was destined to be, and in the course of the complex, visible and invisible, struggles between warriors and cities, between Kurii and Priest-Kings, she would play a pivotal role.
Kajira of Gor is one of the most excitingly vivid novels John Norman has written. Here is all the color and terror of Gor. Here, between crown and fetters, between adulation and total submission is the full-scale panorama of that wonderful, barbaric world as only Tarl Cabot knew it.
But life in such a carnival is always a risk in itself. There are monsters in form and monsters in mind among them--and there may be spies of the alien Kurs and the omnipotent Priest-Kings Players of Gor is a rich and full adventure on that wondrous world where free men must fight and slave girls must yield, where life and liberty may depend on the chance moves of a game-board or the edged passions of the dueling ground. And where Tarl's destiny must bring him face to face with a conspiracy of superhuman powers.
With comrades at his side, barbarian warriors and daring women, free and slave, his plans went forward -until the mercenaries of Dietrich of Tarnburg disrupted the struggle as a mysterious third force.
Mercenaries of Gor brings into action all the magic and conflict of that Counter-Earth, as Tarl became the center of intrigue and treachery in the city of his greatest enemies.
On that barbarically splendid Counter-Earth, Doreen drew a high price as a dancer in taverns, in slave collar and ankle bells. Until each of her owners became aware that their prize dancer was the target of powerful forces-that in the tense climate of the ongoing war between Ar and Cos, two might empires. Doreen was too dangerous to keep.
Dancer of Gor is a John Norman bonus novel-an erotic fever-pitched novel of an alien world where men were all powerful and women were living jewels of desire.
As the bloody tide of war spread over Gor, Tarl Cabot, outcast by the Priest-Kings, became deeply enmeshed in the military combat between the empire of Ar and the invaders from Cos. His fate would depend upon which proved victorious in the coming confrontation at Ar's besieged river port. And it looked like Tarl himself might prove the deciding factor that would tip the scales of destiny for one side or the other...
With Renegades of Gor, all the complexity and intrigue of John Norman's saga come together to creat a adventure replete with danger, excitement, and romance in the unforgettable realm of Gor-- where courage remains meaningful, and pride and honor have never been forgotten.
As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar's Station. And when Ar's Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and other survivors make their escape from the defeated port. But with the forces of Cos now readying to continue on their devastating march of conquest, Tarl must go undercover as a spy within the enemy camp, hoping to discover their plans and send word to Ar's army before it is too late..
In Vagabonds of Gor, Tarl Cabot faces perhaps his greatest challenge of all, as he is caught up in the myriad dangers and intrigue of two mighty powers at war!
With the capital city of Ar under the sway of the beautiful traitress Talena, a ruler placed in power by the Cosian invaders, Tarl Cabot and the Delta Brigade, the members of the underground force sworn to defeat Cos, must call upon the unique talents of master magician Boots Tarsk-Bit to recapture the precious Home Stone of vanquished Ar's Station. For snatching the Home Stone from the enemy's grasp may prove the vital ingredient in Tarl's desperate and dangerous campaign to rouse the people of Ar to fight on to regain their freedom from the hated foe...
In Magicians of Gor, Tarl Cabot and his allies must work a unique magic with illusions and swordblades to root out the treachery at the heart of a mighty empire.
