Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities―Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four (Return to Neveryon) - Softcover

Delany, Samuel R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819562718 ISBN 13: 9780819562715

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

5 3/8 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 93-17847

About the Author:

Samuel R. Delany's many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction novels Dhalgren (1996), Trouble on Triton (1996, originally published as Triton), and The Einstein Intersection (1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0819562718
• ISBN 13: 9780819562715
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 402