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The first book, Tarnsman of Gor, opens with scenes reminiscent of scenes in the first book of the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs; both feature the protagonist narrating his adventures after being transported to another world. These parallels end after the first few books, when the stories of the books begin to be structured along a ...
Gor is a 1987 science fiction fantasy film. It was loosely based on the 1966 novel Tarnsman of Gor, the first in the Gor series of sword and planet novels. The series was written by philosophy professor and author John Frederick Lange Jr. under his pen name John Norman. There was a sequel to the film, Outlaw of Gor (1989).
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John Norman's Gorean Saga is a long-running series of adventure science fantasy novels, starting in December 1966 with Tarnsman of Gor. The series was put on hold after its twenty-fifth installment, Magicians of Gor , in 1988, when DAW refused to publish its successor, Witness of Gor .
GOR, the IATA code for Gore Airport in Ethiopia; gor, the ISO 639-2 and -3 codes for the Gorontalo language spoken on Sulawesi, Indonesia; GOR, the London Underground code for Goldhawk Road tube station in London, UK; GOR, the National Rail code for Goring & Streatley railway station in Oxfordshire, UK
Outlaw of Gor (also known as Gor II) is a 1988 adventure fantasy science fiction film directed by John "Bud" Cardos.A sequel to Gor, it is loosely based on the Gor novel series by John Norman [2] but has strong plot and qualitative differences from the original 1967 book Outlaw of Gor.
Green began her full time writing career in 1984. Her early works were marketed as similar to John Norman's Gor series, [4] but were actually intended as a rebuttal to Gor. [5] Green said that she set out first to lampoon Norman's Gor books by creating three-dimensional female characters and powerful female characters in similar fantasy ...
The area of the main northern-hemisphere city-states (or the "northern civilized cities of known Gor", as it's referred to in Assassins of Gor, book 5 of the series) is where the main default form of Gorean culture is typically practiced (as opposed to somewhat divergent or "barbarian" cultures in outlying regions). This is labeled on the map ...