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"Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs." -- New York Times Book Review
Book Description
In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, 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 Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.
The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon'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.
Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities : Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four
Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities : Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four,Samuel R. Delany,Wesleyan University Press,0819562718,Delany, Samuel R. - Prose & Criticism,Fantastic fiction,Fantasy,Fantasy - General,Fiction,Fiction - Fantasy,Science Fiction,Science Fiction - General
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