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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1966
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Chronicles of Counter-Earth

1 - Tarnsman of Gor (Dec-1966)
2 - Outlaw of Gor (1967)
3 - Priest-Kings of Gor (Dec-1968)
4 - Nomads of Gor (Nov-1969)
5 - Assassin of Gor (Dec-1970)
6 - Raiders of Gor (Dec-1971)
7 - Captive of Gor (Dec-1972)
8 - Hunters of Gor (Mar-1974)
9 - Marauders of Gor (Mar-1975)
10 - Tribesmen of Gor (Mar-1976)
11 - Slave Girl of Gor (Mar-1977)
12 - Beasts of Gor (Mar-1978)
13 - Explorers of Gor (Mar-1979)
14 - Fighting Slave of Gor (Mar-1980)
15 - Rogue of Gor (Mar-1981)
16 - Guardsman of Gor (Nov-1981)
17 - Savages of Gor (Mar-1982)
18 - Blood Brothers of Gor (Nov-1982)
19 - Kajira of Gor (Mar-1983)
20 - Players of Gor (Mar-1984)
21 - Mercenaries of Gor (Mar-1985)
22 - Dancer of Gor (Nov-1985)
23 - Renegades of Gor (Mar-1986)
24 - Vagabonds of Gor (Mar-1987)
25 - Magicians of Gor (Jun-1988)
26 - Witness of Gor (Jan-2001)
27 - Prize of Gor (Nov-2008)
28 - Kur of Gor (Dec-2009)
29 - Swordsmen of Gor (Dec-2010)
30 - Mariners of Gor (Oct-2011)
31 - Conspirators of Gor (Jul-2012)
32 - Smugglers of Gor (Sep-2012)
33 - Rebels of Gor (Oct-2013)
34 - Plunder of Gor (Sep-2016)

Telnarian Histories

1 - The Chieftain (Jan-1991)
2 - The Captain (Jan-1992)
3 - The King (Jan-1993)
4 - The Usurper (Mar-2015)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Tarnsman of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 1

    THE HIDDEN WORLD Earth could never know of Gor, the world always on the opposite side of the Sun. But Gor somehow knew about Earth, asTarl Cabot soon discovered. Taken by force to that savage world, Cabot was forced to become a tarnsman--a warrior...

  • Outlaw of Gor

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    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 2

  • Priest-Kings of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 3

    Once Tarl Cabot had been the mightiest warrior of Gor, the strange world of Counter-Earth. But now on all the planet, he had no friends except the tarn, the mighty bird on which he flew. He was an outcast, with every hand against him. His home cit...

  • Nomads of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 4

    Tarl Cabot, warrior and tarnsman, left the forbidden Sardar Mountains on a mission for the Priest-Kings of Gor, the barbaric world of Counter-Earth. The Priest-Kings were dying, and he had to find their last link to survival. All he knew about his go...

  • Assassin of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 5

    KUURUS, OF THE DREAD CASTE OF ASSASSINS, WAS ON A MISSION OF VENGEANCE. FOR IN THE NEWLY REBUILT CITY OF KO-RO-BA, SOMEONE HAD FOULLY MURDERED A YOUNG WARRIOR WITH FLAMING RED HAIR-THE MARK OF TARL CABOT OF KO-RO-BA, AND FORMERLY OF EARTH. ALL GUILTY...

  • Raiders of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 6

  • Captive of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 7

    ABDUCTION FROM SPACE Spoiled, rich young Elinor Brinton was no longer on Earth. She had been kidnapped from her NewYork apartment and carried across space to Gor by alien slavers. Then the ship was wrecked and she was stranded on the strange wo...

  • Hunters of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 8

    Three lovely women were keys to Tarl Cabot's career on Gor, Earth's orbital counterpart. They were: Talena, daughter of Gor's greatest ruler and once Tarl's queen. Elizabeth Cardwell, who had been Tarl's comrade in two of his greatest exploit...

  • Imaginative Sex

    Sensual fantasy scenarios to spice things up in the bedroom. In 1974, the author of the controversial and popular Gor novels revealed his vision for an exciting, fulfilling sex life for all. Imaginative Sex outlines John Norman's philosophy on relati...



  • Marauders of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 9

    Tarl Cabot's efforts to free himself from the directive of the mysterious priest-kings of Earth's orbital counterpart were confronted by frightening reality when horror from the northland finally struck directly at him. Somewhere in the harsh land...

  • Time Slave

    Dr. Brenda Hamilton—a PhD mathematician from Caltech—is beautiful, though she does not know her true beauty. She is a woman, though she does not know her true womanhood. Deep within herself she is sensual, though her senses have been dull...

  • Tribesmen of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 10

    The Others were on the move! The Priest-Kings had received a message: "Surrender Gor." The date had been set for conquest or destruction. Tart Cabot could no longer linger in Port Kar--now he must act on behalf of the Priest-Kings, on behalf of Go...

  • Slave Girl of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 11

    Tarl Cabot had resumed his allegiance to the Priest-Kings, the non-human but benevolent rulers of Earth's orbital twin planet, Gor. And accordingly Tart knew that the battle for the possession of the planet was under way--the Kurii, the beastlike inv...

  • Beasts of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 12

    On Gor, the other world in Earth's orbit, the term beast can mean any of three things: First, there are the Kuril, the monsters from space who are about to invade that world. Second, there are the Gofean warriors, men whose fighting ferocity is i...

  • Explorers of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 13

  • Ghost Dance

    "There was little noticeable, little remarkable about Edward Chance, saving perhaps that he had once shot and killed a man....His craft, medicine, was more than a business with him, more than a professional skill. It was a way of healing his own hear...

  • Fighting Slave of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 14

    Attempting to save his girl friend from a Gorean slave trap, Jason Marshall found himself kidnapped to that legendary counter-Earth planet. And as such found himself the first "civilized" Earth male to become enslaved in the ruthless chains of Gorean...

  • Rogue of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 15

    Jason Marshall learned the meaning of manhood and the power of women, both dominant and submissive, when he was kidnapped from Earth to the Counter-Earth called Gor. Winning his freedom, Jason set out single-handed to win his own place on that glorio...

  • Guardsman of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 16

    From kidnapped collegian to a woman's slave, from landless fugitive to warrior-captain, the life of Jason Marshall on Earth's orbital twin was a constant struggle against the naked power and barbaric traditions of glorious Gor. Now, in the heat of...



  • Savages of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 17

    The Kur came to Port Kar! Two of the terrible space beasts came to make Tart Cabot an offer. They, a death-squad; sought the renegade Kur commander, the great Half-Ear, whom Tarl had once battled in the Far North. But Tarl refused their offer, for...

  • Blood Brothers of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 18

    JOHN NORMAN Tarl Cabot, seeking the monsters from the Steel Worlds, found himself among the cruel savages who ruled the vast Barrens. Though himself enslaved, he stood with his comrades and masters against a coming onslaught. For the Kur had un...

  • Kajira of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 19

    Kajira means slave-girl in Gorean. But when Tiffany Collins was kidnapped from Earth and brought to that orbital counter-world, she found herself on the throne of a mighty city as its "queen:' Power seemingly was hers, and she did not realize that he...

  • Players of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 20

    During the holiday revels of Port Kar, an attempt is made on the life of Tarl Cabot. And Tarl discovers that the Priest-Kings have turned against him! To clear himself of their charge of treason, he must follow the assassin's trail. The way to achiev...

  • Mercenaries of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 21

    War on Gor is a rousing and fearful affair--and when the armada of Cos landed and began its sweeping arch against the mighty city of Ar, Tarl Cabot was swept up in their drive. Outcast from Port Kar, rejected by the Priest Kings, Tarl fought now for ...

  • Dancer of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 22

    Doreen Williamson appeared to be a quiet shy librarian, but in the dark of the library, after hours, she would practice, semi-nude, her secret studies in belly-dancing. Until, one fateful night, the slavers from Gor kidnapped her. On that barbaric...

  • Renegades of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 23

    As the bloody tide of war spread over Gor, Tarl Cabot, outcast by the Priest-Kings, became deeply enmeshed in the military combat between the empire of Ar and the invaders from Cos. His fate would depend upon which proved victorious in the coming con...

  • Vagabonds of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 24

    As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar's Station. And when Ar's Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and ...

  • Magicians of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 25

    John Norman''s epic Gorean Saga is one of the longest-running and most successful series in the history of fantasy. It is also one of the most controversial. Over the course of more than 30 books produced over a span of six decades, the series has...

  • The Chieftain

    Telnarian Histories - 1

    BLAZING ACTION BY THE AUTHOR OF THE PROVOCATIVE GOR SAGA THIS IS THE HISTORY OF THE AGE OF THE TELNARIANS A corrupt, vast empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But on a thousand worlds of swords and science, the savage so...



  • The Captain

    Telnarian Histories - 2

    THIS IS THE HISTORY THE AGE OF THE TELNARIANS A corrupt, vast empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But on a thousand worlds of swords and science, the savage souls of true men will not be chained. A heroic tide is rising--...

  • The King

    Telnarian Histories - 3

    A corrupt, vast empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But on a thousand worlds of swords and science, the savage souls of true men will not be chained. A heroic tide is rising--and one warrior is born to lead the barbarian h...

  • Witness of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 26

    Ar, defeated, shamed, systematically looted, is occupied by Cosian forces. Perhaps Marlenus of Ar, alone, the great ubar, could recall the men of Ar to the recollection of their Home Stone and its meaning. But it is thought that he perished in the Vo...

  • Prize of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 27

  • Norman Invasions

    For decades the creator of Gor has been writing short pieces and quietly putting them in a drawer. But at last he is ready to go public with them in this  wide-ranging story collection. It includes a number of  pieces with such Gorean theme as fema...

  • Kur of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 28

  • Swordsmen of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 29

    Fresh from his exploits in the Steel Worlds, home of the Kurii, a savage alien race intent on conquering Gor, Tarl Cabot has been returned to an isolated beach, at coordinates apparently specified by the Priest-Kings, the masters of Gor and the enemy...

  • The Calpa & Notes Pertaining to a Panel in Salon D

    Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories by John Norman show off the verbal flair and philosophical complexity that go into the author's famous Gor Saga. The Calpa attempts to describe the indescribable and paints a...

  • Mariners of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 30

    MARINERS OF GOR is a direct sequel to SWORDSMEN OF GOR and the action picks up immediately from the end of the earlier book. Many on Gor do not believe the great ship, the ship of Tersites, the lame, scorned, half-blind, half-mad shipwright, original...

  • The Totems of Abydos

    In a far future, two anthropologists, gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naive Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes, of a sort no longer welcome on Home World, have been assigned to conduct ...



  • Conspirators of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 31

    John Norman's epic Gorean Saga is one of the longest-running and most successful series in the history of fantasy. It is also one of the most controversial. Over the course of more than thirty books produced over a span of six decades, the series has...

  • Smugglers of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 32

    This is an unusual book, having to do with alleged events on the alleged world, Gor, the Antichthon, or Counter-Earth, as it seems to have two narrators, or authors, who, as the texts will have it, see, and relate to, certain events, possibly of cons...

  • Rebels of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 33

    FIRST TIME IN PRINT! John Norman's epic Gorean Saga is one of the longest-running and most successful series in the history of fantasy. It is also one of the most controversial. Over the course of more than thirty books produced over a span of six de...

  • The Usurper

    Telnarian Histories - 4

    The fourth volume in John Norman's epic Telnarian Histories describes the continuing rise to power of an unsung warrior thrown into the maelstrom of ambition, treachery, and violence that is the galactic empire When Filene, a former noblewoman ma...

  • Plunder of Gor

    The Chronicles of Counter-Earth - 34

  • The Emperor

    The complexities and storms of the Telnarian Histories are brought to their unexpected and rousing climax.   Following a palace coup, in the midst of intrigue and turmoil, Otto, the blond barbarian giant, King of the Otungs, a tribe of the Vanda...

  • Quarry of Gor

    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 attra...

  • Avengers of Gor

    Puzzling, disturbing rumors have reached Port Kar. Tarl Cabot, warrior and merchant, pirate and slaver, once of Earth, now of Gor, learns that the Farther Islands, Thera, Daphna, and Chios, west of the Island Ubarates of Cos and Tyros, are being bloo...

  • Warriors of Gor

    The Saga of Gor continues as Tarl Cabot attempts to save a beautiful prisoner from a terrible fate. The daughter of Marlenus, the Ubar of Ar, is now a fugitive sought for betraying the Home Stone of her city. The price on her head could build fleets ...

  • Stoic Beauty

    Discover the profound allure of Stoic Beauty: Discovering the Timeless Appeal of Inner Calm, a captivating exploration into the tranquil world of Stoicism and the unyielding beauty that it fosters.John Norman, a revered philosopher and author, in...



  • Treasure of Gor

    A brilliant woman’s dangerous discovery on Earth leads to her enslavement on the planet Gor in this long-running sci-fi fantasy series. In a remote corner of the American southwest, there is a small, private observatory. To most of the staff, it is...

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John Norman has published 50 books.

John Norman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Treasure of Gor, was published in April 2024.

The first book by John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor, was published in December 1966.

Yes. John Norman has 2 series.
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