Talk:John Norman

message: Frankly, Norman has a persecution complex. It wasn't political correctness that truncated his career; it was his insistence on publishing a long string of minor variations from the same template. Most of the discussion in the article about "action against the sale of Norman's books" is, at best, grossly overstated. Monicasdude 05:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: censorship?

message: Should the 'sex slave cult' really be listed under 'career'? I don't believe anyone is claiming that John Norman was directly responsible for creating them, only that they were 'inspired' by his books: I'd have thought it was more suitable for a seperate 'Trivia' section (or similar named). Mark Grant 20:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point; I just changed the header level.  If you want to make further edits along the lines you mentioned, that would probably be good. AnonMoos 01:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

text: They're the "Kaotians" -- the more people have learned about them, the less there seems to be to them.  The upshot is that on the "World of Gor" forum etc., both the Goreans and Kaotians have agreed that the Kaotians are not Goreans. AnonMoos 20:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Could you please explain this more detailed? It's not obvious to me. --Nemissimo II 09:04, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The group in 2005/2006 consisted of exactly two core male members (the founder and his young disciple), and such women as they were able to attract to themselves from time to time.  The group founder considered what he does to be "better than Gor", while the professed Goreans who encountered him online (and watched his several appearances in the UK media) considered him to be an annoying publicity-seeker who misrepresents Gorean ideals to a sensationalistic press...  There are further quasi-sordid details, but other people know more about them than I do. AnonMoos 09:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

text:  Thanks for your reply. --Nemissimo II 19:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other 

message: *  A GDFL image would be great! --Nemissimo II 08:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: THE LINK TO www.newworldpublishers.com SEEMS TO BE BROKEN ON THIS BIOGRAPHY, CAN SOMEONE CHECK THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF I SHOULD JUST EDIT IT OUT OR NOT
:That's not even his current publishers, anyway -- the current publishers are "E-Reads"... AnonMoos 06:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Publishers

message: There's a :commons:Category:John Norman now, though it probably doesn't merit a "Commonscat" template on this article... AnonMoos 13:55, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons category

message: Don't see anything very controversial in that assertion -- ca. 1995, Norman's authorial career was pretty much dead in the water (with the premature termination of the Telnarian series and no mass-market publisher willing to take on the Gor series), but by 1997 Gor enthusiasts were beginning to find each other on the Internet and bond into a community (or rather a number of communities, since different people have very different ideas of what it means to be "Gorean").  The first posting to Usenet's alt.books.gor now preserved at Google groups was made Aug 12 1997.
This internet-driven revival of interest hasn't enabled Norman to find a mass-market publisher, but it's kept Gor alive as niche product in several ways (most notably with the 2001 first publication of the 26th Gor book Witness, which wouldn't have happened without a significant number of Internet pre-orders), and spawned a thousand bulletin boards... AnonMoos (talk) 07:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Internet-driven revival of interest

message: "Norman is a follower of Edgar Rice Burroughs..." This is ambiguous. Such phrasing implies someone following a creed laid down by a prophet or some such. Is that what was intended?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.62.47 (talk) 04:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The first few Gor books were apparently patterned fairly closely after the John Carter of Mars books in a number of ways; as Norman started to gain commercial success and authorial self-confidence with the Gor series, he then felt free to depart more from the Burroughs legacy... AnonMoos (talk) 04:53, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Follower of Borroughs? 

message: Not sure why that statement was removed from the article; it's somewhat obvious to a large number of SF fans... AnonMoos (talk) 17:07, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: influence of ][[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s [[John Carter (character)|John Carter of Mars]] novels on Norman's early writings

message: I removed the link to Queens College Philosophy department because it is no longer valid. An updated link to the Queens College Philosophy faculty is here: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DSS/Philosophy/FacultyStaff/Pages/default.aspx However, John Norman is not listed, so he is most likely no longer there. Tweisbach (talk) 19:01, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: He likely hasn't been an active faculty member for some time... AnonMoos (talk) 01:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queens College Philosophy Faculty 

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message: The BDSM movement didn't really start to coalesce until the 1980s (while the term "BDSM" itself seems to have come into use around 1990-1991), while Norman started publishing in 1966, so he actually precedes BDSM... AnonMoos (talk) 23:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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