Gor is about the most horrible, misogynistic, racist Science Fiction Series (Horseclans is a close Second) I ever bought 20 Volumes of because I’m also a completeist.
The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Norman’s “sexual philosophy” is “widely detested”.
It’s really, really bad.
I regret it in a way that I don’t E.E. “Doc” Smith (Lensmen, Skylark of Space) or even H.P. Lovecraft (a documented Anti-Semite in addition to many other personal failings) because the writing is bad and nonsensical too.
Look, I read Le Guin and L’Engle and I must say for sheer wackiness Heinlein is hard to beat. I’m a sucker for Pournell and Niven even though they are both militant Libertarians, Jerry more than Larry. Used to read Jerry’s Computer column on the regular.
I’ve read pretty much all of Poul Anderson’s stuff and he’s another Libertarian type, SciFi was lousy with them and still is to a large extent. You try to learn to ignore it and I don’t read print as much as I used to ($10 for a Paperback? Screw you). You must read before you can write of course but I find Writing consuming and have very little time.
Some idiot took it into their head to make a Movie out of Gor which I suppose is fair enough because it has a great fan base among Incels (before they were even a thing!) and therefore an audience (complete Box Office failure).
Here it get the full MST3K treatment-