/lit/ - Literature

>>8524510
I've never read them, although I do have a weird uncle who once mentioned he had. The following is my impression:

They're written in the pulp tradition. Burroughs' Barsoom stories are pretty straitlaced, but everybody is running around naked, and the erotic subtext isn't completely absent. Many fans in the old days were not content with leaving things where pulp authors left them.

Then in the 60s John Norman basically writes "Hardcore Barsoom" and there were plenty of people who lapped it up. He merely put into writing what everybody else had already been doing and saying. And by most accounts, the first few novels were at least passable outside of the BDSM stuff, certainly better than whatever fanfic was being put out in zines.

I have no idea how well the new Gor novels sell, but I imagine Norman has gotten really good at writing BDSM pulp after doing it for 40 years, so if that's what you're into he's probably got what you want.