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Book

Tales of Nevèrÿon

Call Number

  • FANTASY DELA (POW)

Publication Information

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [1993]

Physical Description

260 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

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. 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?

Contents

  • The tale of Gorgik
  • The tale of Old Venn
  • The tale of Small Sarg
  • The tale of potters and dragons
  • The tale of dragons and dreamers.

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