Flight from Neveryon - Softcover

Delany, Samuel R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819562777 ISBN 13: 9780819562777

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1994

Synopsis

A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 3

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.

About this title

About the Author

Samuel R. Delany's many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction novels Dhalgren (1996), Trouble on Triton (1996, originally published as Triton), and The Einstein Intersection (1998).

From the Back Cover

In this chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink, Gorgik the Liberator's slave revolt takes an unexpected turn. Flight from Neveryon contains a novella, a long story, and a full-length novel.

Reviews

These two volumes conclude the story begun in Neveryona and Tales of Neveryon (Classic Returns, LJ 1/94). LJ 's reviewer asserted that Flight "may be the most successfully experimental work yet from an author for whom language and story are inseparable" ( LJ 4/15/85). "Delany's artistry as both writer and storyteller rises to the surface" in Return , originally published as The Bridge of Lost Desire ( LJ 9/15/87).
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Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819562777
• ISBN 13: 9780819562777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378