As transported Earthman Tarl Cabot goes to a world of barbarians, slavery, and giant birds (the titular “tarns”), a clunky narrative ensues. What that is is a somewhat sleazier and really, really blatant John Carter of Mars knockoff. Yet you’d never know it from the beginning entry, Tarnsman of Gor. Dragonsoul.The Gor series is perhaps the most infamous science fiction one ever. Can Hualiama forge a path, a new way, as the first shapeshifter dragoness? Can her forbidden love for Grandion flower amidst the smoke and ruin of war?Yet she dances over Islands, forging a fate inimical to all evil. She will obliterate any that seek to thwart her ambitions-all the armies of men and dragons, the monstrous war-machine of Shinzen, warlord of the giants, and most especially, Hualiama and Grandion, the Tourmaline dragon.Epic powers collide in the worlds above and below the clouds. The prophesied comet crashes into the Island-World, bearing the spirit of a malevolent ancient dragoness, Numistar Winterborn. A girl born of fire, raised by dragons and imbued with the terrible, corrupting power of ruzal.Now, portents fill the sky. Laid low by the accursed dragon haters, Hualiama must confront the greatest powers of the age as Dramagon's disciples encircle the ultimate prize-her.

Tarnsman of Gor is the 1st book in the Gorean Saga, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. but to what end? Rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire. He is disciplined by the best teachers and warriors that Gor has to offer . . . It emerges that Tarl is to be trained as a Tarnsman, one of the most honored positions in the rigid, caste-bound Gorean society. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he finds himself transported to the planet of Gor, also known as Counter Earth, where everything is dramatically different from anything he has ever experienced. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life.

Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. Summary The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality. Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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