Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four
by Samuel R. Delany
Publication Date: Oct 15, 1993
List Price: $17.95
Format: Paperback, 402 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780819562715
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Parent Company: Wesleyan University
Description of Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four by Samuel R. Delany
In his four-volume series Return to Neveryó, 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 Neveryóvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryóna’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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