Gor is the fictional setting for a series of sword and planet novels written by philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman. The setting was first described in the 1966 novel Tarnsman of G
First published in 1966, Tarnsman of Gor is shown here with 1976 artwork by Boris Vallejo.
Model dressed as a kajira in a camisk with a simulated kef brand
Sexual roleplayer in a kajira pose at Folsom Street Fair. The woman is posing in an approximation to nadu, the typical position of a "pleasure slave".
Gorean role-playing in Second Life. Panther Girls (Gorean quasi-Amazons) from the Northern Forest, attending a meeting at the town hall of the city Thentis.
Planetary romance is a subgenre of science fiction in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one exotic alien—often technologically primitive—world, characterized by distinctive physic
Gor
…Gor () is the fictional setting for a series of sword and planet novels written by philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman. The setting was first described in the 1966 novel Tarnsman of Gor. The series…
Cover of Imagination, August 1953
Cover of Planet Stories, May 1951
Cover illustration for A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1917
Cover of Planet Stories (vol. 1, no. 1, Winter 1939), a pulp magazine devoted to interplanetary adventure.