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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
By the way, if you want a good feel for the writing of the Gor novels without actually having to read one, I strongly recommend the parody " Houseplants of Gor". Or, for that matter, if you have read them. Aside from getting John Norman's literary voice dead-on (yes, he is that stilted) it's a side-splittingly funny parody. |
*snickers* Good example!
Another similar series is Sharon Green's Warrior series. The female lead is pretty much treated that way for the first several books. The ending is romanticized, but it is very very very similar.
This seems to have been an immensely popular sci-fi theme for a while.