The Telnarian Histories (1991–1993) are a series of three space opera novels which express philosophical messages consistent with those of author John Norman's other works of fiction. The individual books in the series are:
- The Chieftain (1991) ISBN 0-446-36149-6
- The Captain (1992) ISBN 0-446-36254-9
- The King (1993) ISBN 0-446-36240-9
The Telnarian Histories were critically and popularly regarded as an unfortunate deviation from Norman's Gor series, perhaps due to a combination of his unconvincing attempts to be a futurist (directly introducing a large number of Imperial Roman social customs and names of early Germanic tribes into his account of a declining galactic empire, for example) and his departing from many of the conventions of his already established Gor legacy. One novel concept explored in the second and third books of the series, is that Dira, the goddess of love and beauty in the pantheon of the Telnarian empire, is also the goddess of slave-girls, and herself enslaved among the gods.
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