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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