Oct 15
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I’m still going through this in my head but surely we can have a man carrying away his damsel on a large fluffy cat beast… beast…bea…breasts! That’s it! Just make sure to have breasts on there too!
Published 1978
October 15th, 2012 at 11:08 am
And there we see… the dominant male… taking his prize… a hunky warrior and a naked women. The cat beasts of Gor will honour him in song.
October 15th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
The Nomads of Gor Blimey.
October 15th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Background: the Nothing of Gor
October 15th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Right at the tail end of the Arnold Böcklin font revival, I see. One year before they staked it and buried it in unhallowed ground.
October 15th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Is it just me, or are some comments running off into the right-hand margin of the page these days on GOOD SHOW, SIR?
I use Firefox, but I have also been viewing the site on IE8. And on more than one computer, now I come to think of it.
Problem with the template, perhaps?
October 15th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I suppose it’s just a wicked case of foreshortening, but they seem to have misplaced the back half of their steed.
(The comments are running off the page for me too. Also Firefox)
October 15th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
@Phil & Yoss – Update to a plugin that decided to take over the comment section. Switched it off now!
October 15th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Template problem fixed
just as I had come up with
a Haiku on it.
@Jaouad: sadly, that Bocklin look is still all the rage in boutiques and hairdressers in Northamptonshire. So’s John Norman.
October 15th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Does Tiddles only have two legs? There’s a cult of people who take the Gor novels VERY seriously, maybe not so much covers like this.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Thanks, GSS Admin, for fixing that glitch. Some of the comments were even funnier with words missing off the edge of the screen!
October 16th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
What is going on with naked damsel’s legs?
It looks like there’s some sort of … insertion between them.
And I bet John Norman was so proud when he was shown this cover, and saw that GOR was about ten times larger than his name.
October 16th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Didn’t the Gorians have some multilegged thing they rode around on (stolen from ERB Martians, I guess). So Tiddles might actually be missing several legs. Perhaps the artist went “Wait, this cat-thing is supposed to have like 6 more legs? Eff it, I”m done.”
October 17th, 2012 at 8:10 am
My favourite John Norman novel is the one where his warriors and naked women sit around discussing Kierkegaardian philosophy. It’s called Either/Gor.
October 17th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Did you know that many Goreans live in Darlington, UK?
But of course, the more accurate title “Nomads Of Darlington” doesn’t sound as butch as “Nomads Of Gor”…
October 17th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
If you give this book to a lady who likes cats, in the mistaken belief that it has anything to do with cats, she’ll never speak to you again.
October 18th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Other alternate titles:
-NOMADS OF BORE
– NOMADS OF CONSENSUAL DELUSION
– NOMADS OF DORK
– NOMADS OF NO-NO
-NOMADS OF NSFW
October 19th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Surprisingly, no one has made the obvious pun before, so the duty falls on me:
FIFTY SHADES OF GOR
October 21st, 2012 at 9:07 pm
UNABLE TO FACE REAL WOMEN OF GOR
October 22nd, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Regarding AR Yngve’s comment #15: but if that lady does want to speak to you again … RUN AWAY.
October 30th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Incredibly enough, someone went and made a Gor movie (or several??) — which also made for a hilarious episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000!
MST3K “Outlaw Of Gor”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evHFLxgua0w
November 5th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
The nomads seem to keep their cats well groomed.
March 25th, 2015 at 1:40 pm
“Gor.” “Gor.” A nice woody sound. “Gor.”