Tales of Nevèrÿon
Author(s): Samuel R. Delany
A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 1
In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿonvolumes in trade paperback.
The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission ? or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.
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- : Wesleyan University Press
- : Wesleyan University Press
- : 0.317515
- : 29 November 1993
- : .56 Inches X 5.4 Inches X 8.46 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Samuel R. Delany
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813.5/4
- : 264