From: b.scott@csuohio.edu

On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:39:21 -0400, John W Kennedy
 wrote
in in
rec.arts.sf.composition:

> On 2015-04-26 22:41:10 +0000, William Vetter said:

[...]

>> John Norman was a fellow who wrote a long series of
>> books during the 60's and 70's similar in setting to
>> Conan's Hyboria (the name of the fictional world was
>> Gor) that was more or less soft-core male dominance
>> pornography in which all women were slaves, without
>> enough explicit sex to prevent them from being sold as
>> paperbacks in chain bookstores.  [...]

> Just to qualify it a bit, the first volume was pretty
> good Burroughs/Howard pastiche, and the third had really
> well-drawn aliens, while the sadism/slaverey part was
> minimal in both. And he could write, in his way. (He was
> actually an academic, slumming.)

Professor of philosophy at Queens College, CUNY, as
recently as 2012, I believe, though apparently no longer
(which is reasonable, since he’s almost 84).  His real name
is John Frederick Lange, Jr.

Brian
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