Gor Series by John Norman

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  • Tarnsman of Gor (Gor #1)
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    Tarnsman of Gor (Gor #1)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings · published 2014

    Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of earth. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he finds himself transported to the planet of Gor, also known as counter-earth, where everything is dramatically different from anything he has ever experienced... more

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  • Outlaw of Gor (Gor #2)
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    Outlaw of Gor (Gor #2)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2014

    In this second volume of the Gorean Series, Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he has known as a history professor on Earth. He is glad to be back in his role as a dominant warrior and back in the arms of his true love. Yet, Tarl finds that his name on Gor has been tainted, his city defiled, and all those he loves have been made into outcasts... more

  • Priest-Kings of Gor (Gor #3)
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    Priest-Kings of Gor (Gor #3)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2014

    This is the third installment of John Norman's popular and controversial Gor series. Tarl Cabot is the intrepid tarnsman of the planet Gor, a harsh society with a rigid caste system that personifies the most brutal form of social Darwinism. In this volume, Tarl must search for the truth behind the disappearance of his beautiful wife, Talena... more

  • Nomads of Gor (Gor #4)
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    Nomads of Gor (Gor #4)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1969

    Join celebrated tarnsman Tarl Cabot in his latest adventure on the parallel planet of Gor and its exotic lifestyle and social norms. Tarl has dedicated his life to ensuring that the Priest-Kings survive the harsh lands of Gor, but a savage tribe that closely guards its secrets has halted his quest. To continue it, Tarl must unravel the mysteries of this strange, private band of nomads called the Wagon People at risk of his life... more

  • Assassin of Gor (Gor #5)
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    Assassin of Gor (Gor #5)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1970

    Welcome to Gor, a parallel Earth where social norms are exotic and the way of life is brutal. In the fifth book in the Gorean Saga, the deadly assassin Kuurus is intent on a bloody mission of vengeance. His adventure takes him from the caste of the pleasure-slaves, who are rigorously trained in the rules and techniques of sexual ecstasy, to the brutal arenas where humans participate in deadly hand-to-hand combat... more

  • Raiders of Gor (Gor #6)
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    Raiders of Gor (Gor #6)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1970

    Former Earthman Tarl Cabot finds himself in the most depraved city on Gor. Port Kar is a city of robbers, brigands, and men without allegiance to any cause or kingdom where the weak are quickly consumed by the strong. However, Tarl is able to flourish in the cutthroat environment of the city, for he is a powerful Tarnsman, used to having his way... more

  • Captive of Gor (Gor #7)
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    Captive of Gor (Gor #7)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1972

    In this seventh book in the Gorean Series, beautiful and headstrong Elinor Brinton of Earth finds herself thrust into the savage world of Counter-Earth, also known as Gor. Brinton must relinquish her earthly position as a beautiful, wealthy and powerful woman when she finds herself a part of the harsh Gorean society. She is powerless as a female pleasure slave in the camp of Targo the slave-merchant... more

  • Hunters of Gor (Gor #8)
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    Hunters of Gor (Gor #8)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1974

    Former Earthman Tarl Cabot is now a powerful Tarnsman of the brutal and caste-bound planet of Gor, also known as Counter-earth. He embarks on an adventure in the dangerous and mysterious wilderness of Gor, pitting his warrior skills against treacherous outlaws, bandits and fighters... more

  • Marauders of Gor (Gor #9)
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    Marauders of Gor (Gor #9)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1975

    Former earthman Tarl Cabot has been struggling to free himself from the cruel control of the Priest-Kings of Gor to no avail. As he pits his strength against such a formidable enemy, a terrible beast appears from the mysterious northern lands, bearing a token of the demise of Tarl's once-beloved woman Talena. The missive is a sign of defiance and disrespect from his enemies, meant to humiliate him and force him to challenge them in response... more

  • Tribesmen of Gor (Gor #10)
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    Tribesmen of Gor (Gor #10)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1976

    In this tenth volume of John Norman's Gor series, Tarl Cabot must prove his final loyalty to the harsh and caste-bound planet known as counter-earth. "Surrender Gor," reads a message sent from the Others, a mysterious people from the worlds of steel. Either the proud rulers of Gor submit or be destroyed. Now Tarl Cabot is leaving the decadent city of Port Kar to wander in the wilds of Gor, taking up the sword to defend his rulers and enemies, the Priest-kings... more

  • Slave Girl of Gor (Gor #11)
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    Slave Girl of Gor (Gor #11)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1977

    Taken as a possession, Judy Thornton, an Earth resident, is found meandering in the wilderness of the Earthlike planet of Gor. In keeping with the uncivilized culture of the Goreans, she is trained and used as a slave. What her masters don't know is that Judy is more than just a beautiful chattel. She has the power to obliterate Gor and all that is related to it... more

  • Beasts of Gor (Gor #12)
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    Beasts of Gor (Gor #12)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1978

    In this, the twelfth book in the famous Gor series, the fight for survival on the primitive, Earthlike world, Gor, continues with a ferocity that matches the rest of the series... more

  • Explorers of Gor (Gor #13)
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    Explorers of Gor (Gor #13)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1979

    This enchanting escapade is the most important quest of Tarl Cabot's career. He must retrieve a potent shield ring from a strange explorer. It is imperative that the omnipotent Priest Kings obtain this ring so that the Goreans do not challenge their enormous power. Throughout his expedition, Cabot learns of uncharted territories on Earth's cosmic counterpart. In the dense forests he discovers, Cabot must use his skills to endure the perils that await his arrival... more

  • Fighting Slave of Gor (Gor #14)
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    Fighting Slave of Gor (Gor #14)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1980

    Emotionally lost, Jason Marshall finds himself thrust into a lengthy struggle to save his beloved from slavery on an Earthlike world called Gor. Kidnapped and helpless, Jason begins a life on Gor as a slave and becomes a prominent warrior. He must battle his way to freedom, if only to liberate his love from the clutches of the alien slave emporium... more

  • Rogue of Gor (Gor #15)
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    Rogue of Gor (Gor #15)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1981

    Learning a valuable lesson in gender roles, Jason Marshall, an Earthman enslaved by the Goreans, must prove himself on the planet Gor. Determined to find the beautiful Earthwoman who was kidnapped with him, Jason is caught in the middle of a devastating war between Ar and the Salerians. Jason must prove himself a real man and survive the war in hopes of finally finding the girl of his dreams... more

  • Guardsman of Gor (Gor #16)
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    Guardsman of Gor (Gor #16)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1981

    Thrust into a life full of woeful twists and turns, Jason Marshall has contended with the prehistoric customs and immeasurable power of the Goreans. His struggles on Gor, a planet resembling Earth, included escaping imprisonment, enslavement, and redeeming lost land. Jason has fought to regain control of his life. Having ascended to a position of power in the Gorean army, Jason must prevail in a battle that seems destined to destroy Gor... more

  • Savages of Gor (Gor #17)
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    Savages of Gor (Gor #17)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1982

    "Long ago in their intraspecific conflicts a violent, technologically sophisticated life form, the Kurii, destroyed their native world. They now seek another. Between Earth and Gor, or the Counterearth, and the power of the imperialistic, predatory Kurii, now ensconced in the "Steel Worlds," a number of satellite colonies concealed amongst the debris of the asteroid belt, stands only the defensive might of the Priest-Kings of Gor... more

  • Blood Brothers of Gor (Gor #18)
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    Blood Brothers of Gor (Gor #18)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1982

    In this book is concluded the adventure which began in the 17th book in the Gorean series, Savages of Gor. Half-Ear, or Zarendargar, a Kur general fallen from favor in the Steel Worlds, now sought by a death squad of his savage compeers, has determined to lure his pursuers into the Barrens, the vast prairies to the east of known Gor, populated by warring tribes known to Goreans as the Red Savages... more

  • Kajira of Gor (Gor #19)
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    Kajira of Gor (Gor #19)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1983

    Kajira means slave-girl in Gorean. But when Tiffany Collins was kidnapped from Earth and brought to that orbital counter-world, she found herself on the throne of a mighty city as its "queen." Power seemingly was hers, and she did not realize that her true role was that of a slave puppet of a conniving woman agent of the monstrous Kurii... more

  • Players of Gor (Gor #20)
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    Players of Gor (Gor #20)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1984

    The games of Gor are diverse, as are their players. There are the games of planetary politics, in which worlds are contested. And those of cities and ubarates, of ponderous cavalries and fleets of lateen-rigged ships. And smaller games, bloody games, played on a square of sand, in which the counters and pieces are edged weapons. And, too, there is Kaissa, common on Gor, played with pieces of wood, on a board of a hundred squares... more

  • Mercenaries of Gor (Gor #21)
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    Mercenaries of Gor (Gor #21)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1985

    Prepared to regain the favor of the Priest Kings by fighting in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot confronts the challenge of surviving the war. Having devised a war strategy, Cabot is ready to execute his plan with help from warriors, free women, and slave women. The involvement of the mercenaries of Dietrich of Tarnburg causes Cabot's plans go awry, and now he must devise a plan to shift the war in another direction.

  • Dancer of Gor (Gor #22)
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    Dancer of Gor (Gor #22)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1985

    Doreen Williamson is a quiet, shy librarian on Earth. As many other young women she is distrustful of her attractions, frightened of men, introverted in manner and sexually inhibited. She lives in a quiet, lonely, dissatisfying, sheltered, frustrated desperation, distant from her true self, her nature denied, her only friends books and her secret thoughts... more

  • Renegades of Gor (Gor #23)
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    Renegades of Gor (Gor #23)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1986

    The maritime ubarate of Cos, with her allies, is mounting an attack on Ar on two fronts, from the south with a major invasion force and in the north with an expeditionary force besieging Ar's Station, Ar's base of power in the vast arable basin of Gor's mightiest river, the Vosk. Dietrich of Tarnburg, a mercenary, has seized Torcodino in the south, with its stores of military supplies, to temporarily halt the march of Cos on Ar, to buy Ar time to organize for her defense... more

  • Vagabonds of Gor (Gor #24)
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    Vagabonds of Gor (Gor #24)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1987

    In the continental war matters proceed apace, to the advantage of Cos. Cabot, and his friend, Marcus, of Ar's Station, who have been spying for Ar in the Cosian encampments, now seek the long-inert forces of Ar, to report acquired intelligence to their commander, Saphronicus, who proves to be of the treasonous party of Ar. Cabot and Marcus are placed under arrest, as spies... more

  • Magicians of Gor (Gor #25)
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    Magicians of Gor (Gor #25)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1988

    The party of treason in Ar is triumphant. After the disaster of the delta campaign Ar is substantially defenseless. The forces of Cos, and her allies, are welcomed into the city as liberators. Ar's Station, which held out so valiantly against superior forces in the north, is denounced as traitorous. Veterans of the delta campaign are despised and ridiculed. Patriotism and manhood are denigrated. Ar's walls are being dismantled willingly by her own citizens to the music of flute girls... more

  • Witness of Gor (Gor #26)
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    Witness of Gor (Gor #26)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2001

    Ar, defeated, shamed, systematically looted, is occupied by Cosian forces. Perhaps Marlenus of Ar, alone, the great ubar, could recall the men of Ar to the recollection of their Home Stone and its meaning. But it is thought that he perished in the Voltai. Young women from Earth brought to Gor are commonly brought for the markets, to be branded and collared, and sold as the delicious, lovely livestock they are... more

  • Prize of Gor (Gor #27)
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    Prize of Gor (Gor #27)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2008

    Ellen is a beautiful young slave girl on the planet Gor. Yet she was not always thus. For nearly sixty years she was a woman of Earth, but life had largely passed her by. Then, following an apparently chance encounter at the opera with a strangely familiar young man, an echo from her past, she finds herself transported from Earth to Gor. Here she discovers the true identity of her kidnapper and his sinister motives... more

  • Kur of Gor (Gor #28)
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    Kur of Gor (Gor #28)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2009

    Some might suppose that the Kurii are monsters, but that is distinctly unfair. They are merely another life form. The Kur is often eight to ten feet in height, if it should straighten its body, and several hundred pounds in weight, and is clawed, fanged, long armed, agile, and swift, often moving on all fours when it wishes to move most rapidly, and that is far faster than a man can run. It does not apologize for its strength, its speed, its formidableness. Nor does it attempt to conceal them... more

  • Swordsmen of Gor (Gor #29)
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    Swordsmen of Gor (Gor #29)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2010

    Fresh from his exploits in the Steel Worlds, home of the Kurii, a savage alien race intent on conquering Gor, Tarl Cabot has been returned to an isolated beach, at coordinates apparently specified by the Priest-Kings, the masters of Gor and the enemy of the Kurii. His only companions are his beautiful new slave Cecily, and Ramar, a ferocious sleen bred in the Steel Worlds to hunt and kill... more

  • Mariners of Gor (Gor #30)
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    Mariners of Gor (Gor #30)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2011

    MARINERS OF GOR is a direct sequel to SWORDSMEN OF GOR and the action picks up immediately from the end of the earlier book. Many on Gor do not believe the great ship, the ship of Tersites, the lame, scorned, half-blind, half-mad shipwright, originally of Port Kar exists. Surely it is a matter of no more than legend... more

  • Conspirators of Gor (Gor #31)
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    Conspirators of Gor (Gor #31)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2012

    John Norman's epic Gorean Saga is one of the longest-running and most successful series in the history of fantasy. It is also one of the most controversial. Over the course of more than thirty books produced over a span of six decades, the series has sold millions of copies and built legions of fans unrivaled in their devotion. E-Reads invites you to rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire... more

  • Smugglers of Gor (Gor #32)
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    Smugglers of Gor (Gor #32)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2012

    This is an unusual book, having to do with alleged events on the alleged world, Gor, the Antichthon, or Counter-Earth, as it seems to have two narrators, or authors, who, as the texts will have it, see, and relate to, certain events, possibly of consequence to the fate of worlds... more

  • Rebels of Gor (Gor #33)
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    Rebels of Gor (Gor #33)

    John Norman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2013

    FIRST TIME IN PRINT! John Norman's epic Gorean Saga is one of the longest-running and most successful series in the history of fantasy. It is also one of the most controversial. Over the course of more than thirty books produced over a span of six decades, the series has sold millions of copies and built legions of fans unrivaled in their devotion. E-Reads invites you to rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire... more

  • Plunder of Gor (Gor #34)
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    Plunder of Gor (Gor #34)

    John Norman

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2016

    A mysterious package lies unclaimed somewhere in the great port of Brundisium. It is rumored that its contents could determine the fate of a world. One thing’s certain: Men and beasts will kill to claim it. Meanwhile, a young woman, now merchandise, has been brought from Earth to the slave markets of Gor. Unbeknownst to her, she holds the key to finding the elusive package—and changing the course of history forever... more

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