Tales of Neveryon

Delany, Samuel R.

ISBN 10: 0553123335 / ISBN 13: 9780553123333

Published by Bantam Books, 1979

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Signed by the author with personalized inscription. ku2.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1724549839105

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales of Neveryon
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553123335
• ISBN 13: 9780553123333
• Binding: Softcover
• Illustrator: Louis S. Glanzman
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy: 1st editions

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Synopsis

In his four-volume series Return to Nevčr˙on, 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 Nevčr˙on volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevčr˙on'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.