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Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)

Samuel R. Delany
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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 Nevèrÿon volumes 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.

Format:
Pages:
260 pages
Publication:
1993
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Edition:
Return to Nevèrÿon, Book 1, Reprint
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
081956270X
ISBN13:
9780819562708
kindle Asin:
B00HE2JK6M

Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)

Samuel R. Delany
3.94/5 (1338 ratings)
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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 Nevèrÿon volumes 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.

Format:
Pages:
260 pages
Publication:
1993
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Edition:
Return to Nevèrÿon, Book 1, Reprint
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
081956270X
ISBN13:
9780819562708
kindle Asin:
B00HE2JK6M

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