Tales of Nevèrÿon Return to Never Edition Contributor(s): Delany, Samuel R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081956270X ISBN-13: 9780819562708 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1993 Annotation: This 1979 American Book Award nominee contains five interlocked stories that tell of the slave Gorgik in a long-ago land, and a masked swordswoman narrates an astonishing feminist creation myth. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 93017848 |
Series: Return to Neveryon Series |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.39" W x 8.47" (0.67 lbs) 264 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |