So this isn't a one-off. Wonderful! Great fight scene, I really enjoyed the pacing, quick enough to keep up the tension but never confusing. Valeria is determined to survive, cunning and confident, and her opponents blinded by their own misogyny but attached to birds that have no such limits.
Ah, the Howard-esque purple prose. "I am no philosopher, I am a barbarian! Now let's talk about my philosophical views on life, death, meaning, religion, politics, gender....". Although I suppose it could be worse. He could have written mediocre porn, wrote a bunch of racist and half-baked worldbuilding around it, shoved in some bragging about how awesome he and his sex slavery planet are, and passed it off as some great philosophy. Even though the "philosophy" is just "I hate feminism".
Well, it appears that Valeria has come to Gorean....civilization, I suppose, is this closest word. Such is the ways of Gor, they try to be both barbarous and civilized and wind up with only the worst traits of both.
The funny thing is that Gor falls firmly in Howard's category of "civilised men", who have lost a barbarian's instincts and keep building cities. Cabot thinks he is a strong barbarian man, and Valeria thinks he's weak and civilised. Then again, her standard is Conan.
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