Quarry of Gor
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3.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A well-to-do, upper-class young woman, intelligent, fashionable, educated, strikingly beautiful, exploitative, selfish, and haughty, a despiser of men as she knows them, taking them all as manipulable weaklings, meets a mysterious, unsettlingly attractive male at a cocktail party, one who is not only distant and seemingly immune to her brandished charms, but who seems to hold her, to her disgruntlement and indignation, in a subtle contempt.
Later her life undergoes an unexpected, dramatic, and radical change. Seized and shipped with others as cargo, as human cattle, to the beautiful, green, fresh, perilous world of Gor, she finds she is now only an object and beast, a slave. She is collared and branded. Her clothing, if any, and her food, as it might be, are now at the whim of others. She learns to kneel, to address the free as “Master” or “Mistress,” to strive to be pleasing, to obey immediately, beautifully, and without demur, in all things and in any respect, and to kiss a whip and hope that it will not be used on her. Later she meets again, on Gor, the mysterious man she met long ago at the cocktail party, only now she is before him, collared and branded, in a rag, on her knees, a lowly slave.
Customer Reviews
Another fantastic book in the Gorean series
Other reviewers probably didn’t even read the book. Norman has never seen women as “sluttish pieces of meat” nor is there anything reprehensible about erotic fantasy. Quarry, as with all the Gor series, is a story, and a good one. Norman’s storytelling has grown over the last few books. I hope he will wrap up loose ends in the next one. Cecily is boring and Cabot is better matched with Vella. I also want to know what happened to Bobaissia and is she with Hurtha. Lastly, Talena needs wrapping up. Is she, like Verna, one of only two women on Gor not to know the fulfillment of nature? Give Talena to some soldier and be done with it. This was very enjoyable and it would be good to take Cabot into a new subculture. Aztec? Russian? Celtic? Chinese? Norman’s Pani books were wonderful. If he wishes to wrap the series, maybe Ko-Ro-Ba should rise again?
A somewhat interesting novella stretched to 400 pages
As a teenager’ I was enthralled by the Gorean sagas. Even knowing that the novels are now at odds with modern sensibilities, I jumped at the opportunity to read a not yet installment in the series. What I found was a story line for a short fantasy novel embedded in a bloated and distasteful argument that all women are sluttish pieces of meat.
I do enjoy slave girl fantasy, but this novel, in a very ham fisted manner, tried to raise escapist fantasy of serious philosophical argument.
Yes, everything blatantly argued in this book was implicit I’m the earlier Gor novels. This installment fails because it it takes an element of fantasy, moves it to the fore. The result is both reprehensible and poorly written.