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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.words : 114958

Who reads Return to Neveryon?

Author

Delany, Samuel R.

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819562708

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

3.88 / 5 (864 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14