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Originally Posted by HarryT
The initial trilogy of Gor books is pretty decent SF. Rather Edgar Rice Burroughs-ish. It didn't turn into bondage and soft porn until later on.
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There's no way I can see a mention of Gor without linking the obligatory parody which must be linked whenever Gor is mentioned:
Houseplants of Gor.
And speaking of pastiches, this one is free from the author @
Smashwords (may be price-matched elsewhere):
Time for Sherlock Holmes by David Dvorkin (
ISFDB), an sfnal Mars-visiting time-traveling adventure, originally out from Dodd Mead in 1983. Dvorkin, who is incidentally a Star Trek tie-in novelist, also offers a lot of other sfnal shorts and novels (some of them small-press backlist) free via his author page @
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Sherlock Holmes meets H G Wells, discovers the secret of immortality, hunts Professor Moriarty across time and space, and manipulates the destiny of mankind, all with the unflinching support of the stalwart Dr. Watson, who is coping with finding and losing the love of his life.