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- Tales of Neveryon
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Review | Author |
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Samuel R Delany - Tales of Neveryon - 7 | clong |
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# | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
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1 | 1993-10-15 | Wesleyan University Press |
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- Blurb:
- In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, 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 Neveryeonvolumes 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.