Sunday, 23 June 2019

New John Norman Gor novel: Quarry of Gor


I feel obliged to mention that someone else, other than me, is releasing a new Gor novel on the 25th June – a writer you may have heard of. :)


John Norman has written a 35th book in the series, this time entitled Quarry of Gor. It seems to be another of the kajira point of view accounts that he's been exceptionally fond of in recent years, so how much of it will be plot driven and how much of it will be reflections on the nature of slavery is anyone's guess.

It can be purchased as either a paper or kindle copy from Amazon.

Here is the back cover blurb:

A well-to-do, upper-class young woman, intelligent, fashionable, educated, strikingly beautiful, exploitative, selfish, and haughty, a despiser of men as she knows them, taking them all as manipulable weaklings, meets a mysterious, unsettlingly attractive male at a cocktail party, one who is not only distant and seemingly immune to her brandished charms, but who seems to hold her, to her disgruntlement and indignation, in a subtle contempt.

Later her life undergoes an unexpected, dramatic, and radical change. Seized and shipped with others as cargo, as human cattle, to the beautiful, green, fresh, perilous world of Gor, she finds she is now only an object and beast, a slave. She is collared and branded. Her clothing, if any, and her food, as it might be, are now at the whim of others. She learns to kneel, to address the free as "Master" or "Mistress," to strive to be pleasing, to obey immediately, beautifully, and without demur, in all things and in any respect, and to kiss a whip and hope that it will not be used on her. Later she meets again, on Gor, the mysterious man she met long ago at the cocktail party, only now she is before him, collared and branded, in a rag, on her knees, a lowly slave.

8 comments:

  1. You can find the first few pages of the book on google books.

    What the hell is that creature behind the two people? It doesn't look like and description of a Kur, but also doesn't look like anything else in the books either.

    Chloe

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  2. Is John Norman using a new publisher and therefore this is what their graphic artist thinks a Kur looks like? Or is it an entirely new species introduced just for tgis book?


    Donna

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    1. I guess we’ll find out shortly when the book comes out, Mistress. One thing is for sure, it’s an ugly cover - possibly the worst Gor cover I’ve seen to date. They should have got ChloeK to design a cover instead, Mistress. :)

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    2. Agreed, this is one ugly cover. What is that thing, and what is that stuff it's head and hands are poking out of, smoke? And is that a small sun behind it, in the 'G' of Gor? Not to mention two of the most unattractive people to grace a Gor cover... Did Norman really piss off his publisher?

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    3. Yes, Master. It looks like a very rushed, amateur art job. Thankfully the Ubara of Gor cover is much better. :)

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  3. I thought the best covers were those published in the 1980's by was it Star Books, there is an earlier edition whose covers look terrible.

    Donna of Dover

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  4. I agree. This is truly uninspired, poorly executed cover art. The back cover synopsis just left me yawning. I am staying with Emma's adventures and Daughter of Gor; superior plot and character development and two real page turners for sure.

    Mick

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  5. Wow, thank you Master. That's incredibly flattering. I'm all blushing-like now. :)

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