Book

Flight from Nevèrÿon

Call Number

  • FANTASY DELA (POW)

Publication Information

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [1994]

Physical Description

376 pages : illustrations ; 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 fog and granite
  • The Mummer's tale
  • The Tale of plagues and carnivals, or: some informal remarks towards the modular calculus, part five.

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