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That's some pretty amazing artwork.

>>15245358

there was a movie in 1988 but it didn't really have anything to do with the books that much.

still ok movie to watch i guess.

i read a summary of one of the books once and it sounded like some weird masturbatory fantasy. I don't know why feminists would be against it though, it was the kind of fantasy women are into

>>15245413

Yeah, that's what the Gorean cycle is: it's a bunch of fetish books, which developed a weird BDSM subculture. John Norman is a horny devil who saw how swords and sorcery was getting turned into meatheaded, stupid thug "barbarian" and sexy warrior woman fantasy, and decided to capitalize on it because there was money to be made. None of it has the same thought and effort put into it as the old stuff, and it comes off as a porn parody.

>>15245491

he was a professor at a university noticing all the women were becoming ballbusting feminist. and came up with the books.

>>15245356

This artwork is not only suburb but I feel like each one I see is a moment taking out time, one I only get peer into for a moment.

Also they are manly as fuck.

>>15245497

No anon, he got horny and wrote a book about a world where everyone else is horny and engages in BDSM. The Gorean cycle is trash as fantasy fiction because it's erotic fiction: it's filled with so-called barbarians, named as such not because they are from far-off barbarian lands, but because they go about the place beating everything up, flexing their spray-tanned muscles, and having constant sex with wenches, all at the same damn time. It's a female and male sex fantasy, which is why there's a whole fucking BDSM subculture about it, for crazy nymphos and horny dogs. If you want a Gorean cycle movie, go watch Deathstalker or some fantasy porno flick. If you want a Gorean cycle game, consider the Rance games because that's basically what a Gorean cycle game would be, but with Japanese porn instead of Western porn.

>>15245538

are you a woman or something?

>>15245550

Are you a retard or something? When he wrote a fucking sex-help book, do you not think that maybe, just maybe, he was trying to get that sweet sweet sex money?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginative_Sex

>>15245574

I don't have a problem with it, a fetish is a fetish, but for fuck's sake anon, stop holding it up as the greatest in fantasy when it's solely designed for horny fans of fantasy literature. It might be the greatest in erotic fantasy literature, but that's it. It serves the exact same purpose as those erotic supplements for Dungeons and Dragons: sexual fantasy.

>>15245603

What a fag

>>15245603

Who the fucks said anything about the Gorean books being the greatest in fantasy? Besides, we all know who's books are the greatest in fantasy.

>>15245641

That stuff wasn't established by Gor anon, and it's not integral to good fantasy. Gor is just the most popular sex fantasy series, because it came out during the so-called sexual liberation. For fuck's sake, the original Pulp-era fantasy had almost none of that: Conan wasn't some dumb brute with a spray-tan, he was a wandering warrior seeking glory and truth, a warrior who wore armour much of the time, a warrior who could actually think, one with cunning and intellect to match his might and fleetness, one who fought against the decadence and debauchery in foreign lands and won. He's a barbarian because he's not from the so-called "civilized" world, Howard used barbarian in its traditional sense, not the sense which had been associated to it by Greco-Roman buffoons.

>>15245641

Women are eternally weak and dumb.

Any fiction with "muh strong" or "muh smart" women are leftist propaganda. Sex sells, and the propagandists know that. They mix the selling point with their propaganda, and the result is the impossible "strong liberated woman that is also sexy".

You gave one of the most known examples: Xena, the dyke abomination.

>>15245783

Truly a TORpedo tier post.

>>15245725

I never claimed gor was the best thing ever, i just said you are talking out your ass if you think it has nothing to do with fantasy genre.

>>15245413

> I don't know why feminists would be against it though, it was the kind of fantasy women are into

Because a man wrote it. If a man had written 50 Shades of Grey do you think it would be a poster-child for female empowerment? No, they'd lynch the author in the street for his debauchery.

>>15245649

The books in Skyrim?

>>15246249

> wait what, isn't 50shades babies first BDSM with the whole thing being the girl has a sugar daddy who ties her up occasionally?

Yes, and this was billed as female empowerment because it allowed a woman to embrace being submissive and open about sexuality.

Logic isn't their strong suit but don't worry, it makes sense to feminists.

>>15245527

>suburb

The word you are looking for is superb.

>>15246249

it was actually a rape fantasy with bdsm but it was praised as women's empowerment.

Gor is a retarded setting read mainly by closeted homos though.

>>15245491

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>>15245725

This guy is correct and a scholar and gentleman. The rest of you is dumb niggras.

>>15246757

Yeah ok reddit

>>15246760

Not an argument

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>>15246757

whatever you say stacy, did you invite your friends from tumblr or reddit after you saw this post? you can get the fuckout now. don't jump on dick on your way out.

>>15245791

He's absolutely right though. You think this mess we're in today only started six or so years ago? Don't be so naive, ignorant and/or retarded because this goes back to at least a century ago. The Cultural Marxist push started slow and steady, with comic books like Superman having subtle immigration and integration themes, NYC becoming the Melting Pot, the poem on the statue of Liberty. More and more, bit by bit, the agenda continued. To the traditional family breaking down, families having two kids instead of three, "empowered" women, rebellion against tradition via rock n roll, hippies, free love, BASED blacks into civil rights etc.

Just because it makes your dick feel good doesn't mean it wasn't part of the plan. Only recently have the feminists and their masters fought against sexy women in media.

>>15246886

G. Edward Griffin was retarded about a lot of things, but he understood commies and their plans so well that he managed to predict all that in the early 70s.

Back on thread topic, I used to read the Storm comics and other stuff by Don Lawrence a lot when I was a kid, those Europeans made tons of stories like these which would have been great settings for fantasy vidya.

>>15245482

That's quite the review, I have to read these books.

>>15245641

Anon, John Norman is opposed to your sexy woman barbarians for not being unarmed slave girls who get whipped a lot. Gor is actually far from the mainstream of old sword & sorcery.

>>15245792

Technically Gor is science fiction. You sound like you haven't read the books. I don't recommend that you do, as even the fans admit that the books are very badly written. It's like how furry Internet comics can be successful despite being terrible.

>>15246259

A big contributing factor is that in John Norman's slave fetish world the slaves are actually slaves with no rights.

>>15245783

>some ancient stories now count as "leftist propaganda"

You do realize strong woman are a common fantasy, even before jews even had any hold anywhere?

And that shit didn't lead anywhere, because fiction is fiction and as long as people don't try to push it as "truth" it basically becomes non-functional as propaganda.

FUCK I had this HUGE book of sci-fi/fantasy art as a kid and I distinctly remember this style. Wow thanks OP, holy shit. Nostalgia rush.

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>>15246259

hardly. the use of alcohol and coercion by Gray has been criticized by BDSM community as closer to, ya know, fucking rape.

But hey feminism and logic mix like oil and water.

>>15246886

I'd like to note that Superman's alien origins aren't brought up for like 15 years after the first page or two of Action Comics #1. If you were a kid and didn't have that particular issue, or the reprint in Superman #1 a year later, you'd never know Superman was an alien.

>>15245538

Deathstalker was a work of art. It deserves to be an all time screen classic. It is pure kino.

>>15245574

I'm curious about the setting not only for the barbarian fetishism, but I believe it is technically sci fi? With sci fi items given as magic items by the alien praying mantis civilization controlling the planet.

>>15247982

> Deathstalker

I watched it for the first time tonight after seeing it mentioned in this thread.

I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say it was good. Plenty of hot bitches though (except some of them had implants which really ruined the "medieval fantasy" setting).

>>15248026

its sci-fi fantasy, gor is supposed to be this alternate earth that is hidden behind the sun on the oposite side of earth so that we can never see it, you can take a spaceship or something there and there technology has been limited by priest kings.

>>15248041

You should watch the second one, it's the greatest sword and sorcery movie of all time.

Isn't the popular opinion of this series that the first three or four book are pretty good, and everything after that is basically weird bdsm fetishist shit?

>>15245369

Why describe it as ok, when there is a better description?

>>15247231

>leftists are only a post 20th century phenomenon

Good goy.

>>15247938

You would have probably still known about it because of the Fleischer cartoons. It still wasn't emphasized very much though.

>>15245356

>Transman of Gor

What did he mean by this?

>>15251186

It was written in a more innocent time, when the horrors of trannies weren't known to many.

try second life

>>15251130

>leftists are only a post 20th century phenomenon

I was implying that the "war goddesses" from at least 2300 BC were obvious reflections of a desire for such women.

Nobody expects women to reflect fiction, except for idiots.

There weren't jews in Greece back then at least.

>>15251131

That "it's a bird, it's a plane" line never made much sense. If you thought something was a bird or a plane, you wouldn't point and say so. "It's a bird!" "Yeah, so what?"