Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.

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 Nevèrÿon volumes 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.

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Tales of Nevèrÿon collects a preface (to the entire series) and five sword and sorcery stories by Samuel R. Delany; and finally an appendix. The stories are "The Tale of Gorgik," "The Tale of Old Venn," "The Tale of Small Sarg," "The Tale of Potters and Dragons," and "The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers. " It is the first of the four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series. This article discusses the five stories collected in the book.

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Bookseller: Shop-books.ca (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 202000584
Title: Tales of Neveryon
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 4th printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 081956270X
ISBN 13: 9780819562708
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Place of Publication: Middletown, CT
This edition first published: 1993-10
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Literature; Fantasy;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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