On 24 Mar 2005 09:25:52 -0800, lensman1955@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>Dreamer wrote:
>> "Brawl Hall - No Balls At All" <kill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > rgorman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Johnston) wrote in
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>> >
>> > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:45:09 -0800, "Bill Cleere"
>> > > <bcleere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>> > You made that up. No one would actually read a novel
>> > >>> > called "Tarnsman of Gor", let alone write it.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I bet you couldn't plod through a Gor novel if paid. They are
>among
>> > the
>> > >>> worst ever written.
>> > >>
>> > >>"Fantasy" novels are the worst **** in the history of writing,
>period.
>> > >
>> > > "Gor" novels are science fiction. Bad science fiction S&M
>> > > ****ography, mind you, but science fiction.
>> >
>> > I fail to see the science. I agree with the rest.
>>
>> It's *bad* science, but it's science. There is no magic in the Gor
>books:
>> everything has a scientific explanation. A lot of it wouldn't *work,*
>but
>> it's understood to be mechanical and replicable in nature and
>therefore
>> isn't magical.
>
>I agree that there was no magic (except maybe in the sf quote; "any
>sufficiently advanced technology is indistinquishable from magic") But
>I seem to remember swords, cloaks and sandals with the hero hiding out
>in the Assassin's Guild for one book.
Plenty of science fiction novels have characters visiting worlds with
lower technologies.
>Quick question. I compared Gor with Burrough's Barsoom series. Is there
>any magic in the Barsoom books?
Only the kind of magic that lets humanoids live on Jupiter.
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