Tales of Neveryon (Return to Neveryon)

Samuel R. Delany

Tales of Neveryon (Return to Neveryon)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Country
United States
Published
29 December 1993
Pages
264
ISBN
9780819562708

Tales of Neveryon (Return to Neveryon)

Samuel R. Delany

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 Neveryon, 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 Neveryonvolumes in trade paperback.

The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryon’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.

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