Editing John Norman (section)

== Writing career ==
Norman's fiction attained popularity in the 1970s and early 1980s with an estimated 6<ref>{{Citation|title=Press Release #1|url=http://www.rdrop.com/~/wyvern/data/ve.pr.html|access-date=2011-01-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514162828/http://www.rdrop.com/~/wyvern/data/ve.pr.html|archive-date=May 14, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> to 12<ref>{{Citation|title=John Norman – Libertarian |url=http://server.theadvocates.org/celebrities/john-norman.html |access-date=2015-03-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203163326/http://server.theadvocates.org/celebrities/john-norman.html |archive-date=February 3, 2012 }}</ref> million copies sold.

John Norman's [[Gor|Gorean Saga]] is a long-running series of adventure [[science fantasy]] novels, starting in December 1966 with ''Tarnsman of Gor''. The series was put on hold after its twenty-fifth installment, ''Magicians of Gor'', in 1988, when [[DAW Books|DAW]] refused to publish its successor, ''Witness of Gor''. After several unsuccessful attempts to find a trade publishing outlet, the series was brought back into print in 2001 with the publication of ''Witness of Gor''. Norman has also produced a separate science fiction series, the ''Telnarian Histories'', plus three other fiction works, five non-fiction works, and a collection of thirty short stories.

Norman has said that the three major influences on his work are [[Homer]], [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]], and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://io9.com/5783833/john-norman-the-philosopher-who-created-the-barbaric-world-of-gor|title = John Norman, the philosophy professor who created the barbaric world of Gor| date=March 22, 2011 }}</ref>