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1985
4.7(28 reviews)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
376 pages
ISBN: 978-0819562777
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Flight from Nevèrÿon

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A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 3 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 Nevèrÿonvolumes 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.

Book Information

Title:Flight from Nevèrÿon
Author:Samuel R. Delany
Series:Return to Nevèrÿon Books
Book Number:#3
Published:1985
Pages:376
ISBN-10:819562777
ISBN-13:978-0819562777

Series Progress

This book is part of the Return to Nevèrÿon Books series and is book #3 in the series.