Return to Neveryon (Return to Neveryon) Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:293 pages
- Publisher:University Press of New England
- Publication Date:30/04/1994
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- ISBN:9780819562784
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:293 pages
- Publisher:University Press of New England
- Publication Date:30/04/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780819562784
