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Neveryona, or
Samuel R. Delany
其他書名
The Tale of Signs and Cities--Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four
出版Wesleyan University Press, 2011-03-01
主題Fiction / Science Fiction / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
ISBN08195719039780819571908
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JhZfgkY8OdcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.

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.