Flight from Neveryon - Softcover

Delany, Samuel R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819562777 ISBN 13: 9780819562777

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1994

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. Fig. LC 93-35916

From the Back Cover:

In this chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink, Gorgik the Liberator's slave revolt takes an unexpected turn. Flight from Neveryon contains a novella, a long story, and a full-length novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0819562777
• ISBN 13: 9780819562777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376