Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities--Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four
Samuel R. Delany$15.26
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A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 2
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 11/29/1993
ISBN: 9780819562715
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.42w x 0.93d
Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 172
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 11/29/1993
ISBN: 9780819562715
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.42w x 0.93d
Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 172