Fighting Slave of Gor

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Summary: Think of Jason Marshall as John Norman's "Gladiator"
Review: "Fighting Slave of Gor," Volume 14 in John Norman's Chroncles of Counter-Earth, is the first of what is known as the Jason Marshall trilogy (because instead of Tarl Cabot the central character is now Jason Marshall). Over the apex of the series with "Nomads of Gor" and "Assassin of Gor," Norman's novels started a gradual but persistent move away from an emphasis on the action-adventure of the conflict between the Priest-Kings and the Others (now revealed to be the Kurii) and spent more and more time dealing with what is now known as the Gorean philosophy of gender roles. On the off chance that nobody understood the complementary relationship between the sexes that exists on Gor between male masters and female slaves, Norman takes a somewhat different approach with this trilogy, which actually focuses more on the male of the species.

Jason Marshall is in his mid-twenties and sitting in a cafe on Earth having a discussion on gender roles with Beverley Henderson. When she becomes the target of a Gorean abduction Jason tries to interfere and ends up brought to Gor as well and promptly enslaved. As the silk slave of the Lady Florence of Vonda, Jason is indoctrinated into the rules of his new world, becomes a pawn in the conflict between his mistress and her nemesis the Lady Melpomene, and ends up in the stables as the titular fighting slave. The intergalactic conflict between the Priest-Kings and the Others is replaced by the more mundane conflict of an attack by Glorious Ar upon the Salerian Confederation.

As an Earth male enslaved on Gor, Marshall serves as a surogate for the male reader in terms of learning the Gorean requirements for being a manly man. Of course, by the end of the novel the collar is on the other neck (literally) and the student becomes the teacher. "Fighting Slave of Gor" and the entire Jason Marshall trilogy are obviously going to be of considerably more interest to those who have not only read the books but have also invested in sleeping silks, Tuchuk tattoos and a slave collar (or two). I preferred Tarl Cabot on his war tarn Ubar of the Skies over anything that ever happened on his sleeping firs, but you know what they say about different strokes.

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Summary: Women on Top in the world of Gor
Review: An interesting read, especially for the ladies, in that they for once get to enjoy the pleasures of a male slave at their service.

For that alone Fighting Slave stands out from the other books in the Gor series.

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Summary: Fighting Slave of Gor is an excellent book!
Review: I first found this book while in high school and was completely absorbed in the story. I was determined to read all the Gor books because of it...but have found it difficult because they are not readily available. It seems that John Norman was visualizing the typical Earth man of the last decade with the emphasis (and I believe OVER EMPHASIS) on "political correctness" and desexualizing human behavior. "Jason" is every bit the 90's type unisexually-seeming male but naturally and fortunately becomes the man he always wanted and feared to be.

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Summary: Slave Boy of Gor
Review: I loved this one! It's what a Norman fan expects. Yes, I own and have read all 25 books of John Norman's GOR Saga and would love to read 25 more. John Norman is an extraordinary writer. So what if he makes slaves out of women. Hey! This is fiction, it hapens in GOR which is at the other side of the Sun and should not affect our planet. However, his books are controversial for those who would like to enslave the minds of everyone. They are anathema for those folks out there who can determine what we can, should, and want to read. Well, too bad. I always have read whatever I want and, if I don't like it, I will not read it. Isn't that the healthy way to be? Why should a well-intentioned person forbid a book to the rest of the country is something beyond my understanding. I guess those sick friends of systematic censorship believe they are God. Certainly they don't believe in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Well, they are not gods. Just very disturbed people and should be confined to special institutions. Rebel, readers! Buy John Norman books and demand that they are reprinted! Besides that, overlooking Norman's obsession with enlaving females, his books are extraordinary. How many authors have you read that depict a whole planet, including inhabitants, flora and fauna, plus language, traditions, etc. in such a way that it's believable? I know of only one: John Norman.

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Summary: The GOR Saga (25 novels by John Norman)
Review: I loved this one! It's what a Norman fan expects. Yes, I own and have read all 25 books of John Norman's GOR Saga and would love to read 25 more. John Norman is an extraordinary writer. So what if he makes slaves out of women. Hey! This is fiction, it hapens in GOR which is at the other side of the Sun and should not affect our planet. However, his books are controversial for those who would like to enslave the minds of everyone. They are anathema for those folks out there who can determine what we can, should, and want to read. Well, too bad. I always have read whatever I want and, if I don't like it, I will not read it. Isn't that the healthy way to be? Why should a well-intentioned person forbid a book to the rest of the country is something beyond my understanding. I guess those sick friends of systematic censorship believe they are God. Certainly they don't believe in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Well, they are not gods. Just very disturbed people and should be confined to special institutions. Rebel, readers! Buy John Norman books and demand that they are reprinted! Besides that, overlooking Norman's obsession with enlaving females, his books are extraordinary. How many authors have you read that depict a whole planet, including inhabitants, flora and fauna, plus language, traditions, etc. in such a way that it's believable? I know of only one: John Norman.

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Summary: Politically Incorrect Old Fashioned Sci Fi
Review: John Norman, in his usual fashion has produced another in the GOR series of his special brand of Science Fiction. The good guys are bigger than life, The bad guys really put up a good fight, mix in john's brand of dry humor (overlook the long tirads about female slavery) and you have a slam bang welcome mam evening of good excapest writing. Read this one and you will either burn the book, or go out and look in your favorite used book store for all 24 issues in the series (yes i have them all) John has more written, but can't get published in this politically correct world we liv

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Summary: Slave Boy of Gor
Review: The 14th Gor novel is the first in the Jason Marshall trilogy and like Captive of Gor and Slave Girl of Gor this one is pretty much for the bondage crowd. The perspective is from the viewpoint of a male slave; hence the title of the review. The story begins with 25 year old Jason in a cafe on Earth talking to Beverley Henderson, a classmate he is attracted to but has never dated. After a long and laughably unrealistic conversation about gender relationships, they go outside and are promptly kidnapped to Gor, parted, and enslaved. Jason finds himself the silk slave (i.e., boy toy) of the Lady Florence of Vonda, a city of the Salerian Confederation. After he has been defiled by Lady Melpomene, Lady Florence's archenemy, however, he is demoted to stable slave and makes a name for himself in the "stable bouts"; hence the title of the book. Despite the title it has very little fighting or action of any kind even after war breaks out between the Salerian Confederation and the city-state of Ar. Furthermore, the writing is self-indulgent to a fault. In one scene Jason is dragging a female prisoner behind him down a pitch black tunnel trying to escape from 4 trained warriors of Ar armed with swords. Jason also has a sword but no training with it and is aware that he has no chance whatsoever against them. Even though he can hear the soldiers searching for them, he nevertheless throws her to the ground and rapes her, no doubt to demonstrate his dominance and full Gorean "manhood" since they had had copious sex just prior to the escape scene. (It took Tarl Cabot 8 volumes to achieve this---it's not until he overcomes his paralytic conversion reaction in the opening chapter of Volume 9, Marauders of Gor, that he is fully Gorean---but Jason does it in less than one!) This scene is utterly unrealistic, utterly gratuitous, and utterly ridiculous. I understand that in his other career John Norman was a professor of philosophy at a New York college. I shouldn't have to tell him that in the hierarchy of human drives survival comes before sex and dominance.

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Summary: Fighting Slave of Gor
Review: The whole trilogy within the 25 book epic series from 12.Beasts of Gor (1978) 13.Explorers of Gor (1979) all the way to 14.Fighting Slave of Gor (1980) were fantastic. I could not put them down. I highly recommend them all!

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Summary: Fighting Slave of Gor
Review: The whole trilogy within the 25 book epic series from 12.Beasts of Gor (1978) 13.Explorers of Gor (1979) all the way to 14.Fighting Slave of Gor (1980) were fantastic. I could not put them down. I highly recommend them all!

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Summary: I agree!!!
Review: Why is it that a small minority of small minded people can spoil life for a broad minded minority in the mistaken belief that they are saving the world from an unreal evil. The politically correct don't have to read what they don't want but why stop the rest of us it is censorship gone mad. Another mind numbingly brilliant book by Mr Norman surely there is a publisher willing to take him on?