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Stand-Alone Fiction

Below is the list­ing of stand-alone fic­tion nov­els writ­ten by John Norman.

 
Ghost-Dance Ghost Dance
Stand-Alone Novel
1st Published 1970 ISBN — 0–7592-9774–6 Buy_Amazon
In Ghost Dance, it is through Chance’s keen eyes and weary heart that read­ers embark on a jour­ney of dis­cov­ery and sorrow.
On the run across the plains, Chance stum­bles upon Running Horse, a Sioux war­rior enact­ing the sacred and vio­lent rit­u­al of the Sun Dance. Quickly, Chance is pulled into the world of the Sioux peo­ple. As their civ­i­liza­tion teeters on the brink of destruc­tion, the Sioux per­form the mourn­ful and fright­en­ing Ghost Dance. Clashes with the white man are fre­quent; the Wounded Knee Massacre approach­es, still in the unknown dis­tance; and vio­lence and anger threat­en the tra­di­tions of a proud and once‑great peo­ple. Nearby, in her quaint sod house, Miss Lucia Turner awaits the full impact of those clash­es. Dust on the hori­zon sig­nals great change com­ing to her once‑simple life. Lucia will soon become a dif­fer­ent kind of woman.
With Ghost Dance, author John Norman brings the same vig­or and pas­sion of sto­ry­telling and imag­i­na­tion that enrich­es his clas­sic Gor nov­els to a vivid sto­ry of his­tor­i­cal upheaval and per­son­al exploration.
Time-Slave Time Slave
Stand-Alone Novel
1st Published 1975 ISBN — 0–7592-9778–9 Buy_Amazon
Dr. Brenda Hamilton—a PhD math­e­mati­cian from Cal Tech—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 dulled by this mod­ern world. Hamilton has come to Africa to work under the bril­liant Danish sci­en­tist Herjellsen, a man who speaks of reach­ing the stars. But what does the ancient stone axe lay­ing on his lab table have to do with space trav­el? Soon it becomes clear that Herjellsen’s exper­i­ment is much larg­er than Hamilton or Herjellsen or even space trav­el itself. It is about cor­rect­ing a mis­take made tens of thou­sands of years ago in human evolution.

Thrown back in time, Hamilton must be shown her place in a tribe known sim­ply as “the Men,” Stone Age hunters who take what they desire and know their true man­hood. Will Hamilton sur­vive in this sav­age land? Will her lover, Tree, teach her what it tru­ly means to be a woman? Can the spark between them put mankind back on its prop­er path toward the stars?

 In Time Slave, author John Norman brings the same keen philo­soph­i­cal acu­ity and pas­sion for sto­ry­telling that enrich his clas­sic Gor nov­els. Fans of his work will love the fresh take on his the­o­ries and the bold adven­ture that brings them to life.
Norman-Invasions Norman Invasions
Collection of Short Stories
1st Published 2009 ISBN — 0–7592-9577–8 Buy_Amazon
The cre­ator of Gor deliv­ers a tour de force in a high­ly imag­i­na­tive, wide-rang­ing sto­ry col­lec­tion, all pre­vi­ous­ly unpub­lished, with a hand­ful of direct­ly Gor-relat­ed pieces and sev­er­al more sto­ries that involve Gor-like female slav­ery and submission.
Many of the sto­ries are philo­soph­i­cal mono­logues which play with exis­ten­tial and phe­nom­e­nal ideas by dis­cussing their philo­soph­i­cal under­pin­nings and their rela­tion to the real world as observed with a philo­soph­i­cal mind-set. They are often with­out dia­logue or even char­ac­ters, mere­ly thoughts, descrip­tions and spec­u­la­tions. Some could almost be lec­tures giv­en nar­ra­tive form.
Some sto­ries are SF, some are hor­ror, some have “main­stream” set­tings. Among the char­ac­ters in the var­i­ous sto­ries are a cou­ple of talk­ing frogs, a cou­ple of inde­pen­dent­ly-think­ing com­put­ers, a fair num­ber of philoso­phers and a num­ber of clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gists or psy­chi­a­trists, often ana­lyz­ing or coun­sel­ing com­put­ers or intel­li­gent alien lifeforms.
Totems-of-Abydos The Totems of Abydos
Stand-Alone Novel
1st Published 2012 ISBN — 978–1‑6175–6476‑5 Buy_Amazon
In a far-off future, two anthropologists—gross, pow­er­ful, dis­solute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspir­ing, young, naïve Allan Brenner, who, unbe­knownst to him­self, car­ries ancient genes of a sort no longer wel­come on Home World—have been assigned to con­duct a study on Abydos, a deeply forest­ed wilder­ness plan­et of lit­tle note whose only evi­dence of civ­i­liza­tion is a sin­gle enclave: small, rough, dingy Company Station, a fuel­ing sta­tion occa­sion­al­ly uti­lized by star freighters.
 Within the for­est, some days from Company Station, are the Pons, a group of small, simian‑type organ­isms that seem near the cross­roads between ani­mal and ratio­nal crea­ture, between nature and cul­ture. They would appear to con­sti­tute an ide­al object of study with respect to the ori­gins and foun­da­tions of civ­i­liza­tion. How it came about, so to speak, that some­thing once emerged from the lair, or cave, that was so rad­i­cal­ly dif­fer­ent? What lies at the beginning?
 The results of the study have already been polit­i­cal­ly pre­scribed on Home World, that the Pons are to shed light on human­i­ty, that it is, in its orig­i­nal and unspoiled nature, polite, sweet, kind, def­er­en­tial, dif­fi­dent, social, non­com­pet­i­tive, and inno­cent. Both Rodriguez and Brenner have a trait in com­mon, how­ev­er, which may explain why they have been sent—exiled, in a sense—to such an out‑of‑the‑way locale. Both seek the truth. They enter the forest.
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