false 85866 5 In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, 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 Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.<br><br>The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon'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. 82862 1979 Tales of Nevèrÿon total:184|5:69|4:57|3:44|2:12|1:2| 184 731 259 17 5 0 false false Fri Jan 02 18:20:27 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 18:24:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 19:53:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 06:31:12 -0700 2009
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