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Flight from Neveryon (Return to Neveryon, Vol 3)
Flight from Neveryon - Return to Neveryon, Vol 3
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Chronicle of a long-ago land on civilization's brink.  Gorgik the Liberator's slave revolt takes an unexpected turn. — Contents: —
  • The Tale of Fog and Granite • (novella 1985)
  • The Mummer's Tale • (novelette 1985)
  • The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals,...  more »
  • Appendix A: Postscript • (shortfiction 1985)
  • Appendix B: Buffon's Needle • essay by Robert Wentworth and Samuel R. Delany 1989 (variant of Appendix: Buffon's Needle 1987)


Notes: This follows the revised text of the 1989 Grafton edition, not previously available in the US. It omits the original second appendix “Closures and Openings”, but adds the “Buffon's Needle” appendix from the 1989 Grafton edition of  Return to Neveryon.

Return to Neveryon is a series of eleven “sword and sorcery” stories -- a science fiction/fantasy series depicting an empire beyond the borders of history where human destinies entwine in a strange design. It is an intricate web of adventure, intrigue and desire and a literary puzzle where meaning, parable and paradox collide.  The eleven tales that make up Return to Neveryon are set before the dawn of history, in a location that might be Africa or Asia.  Many of the stories have different protagonists and, indeed, different sets of foreground characters. But all take a greater or lesser part in recounting an overall story running through the whole series, the history of a man called Gorgik the Liberator.  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?  Originally published in four volumes during the years 1979-1987, those volumes are:"Return to Neveryon": Vol 1) Tales of Neveryon;  Vol 2) Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities;  Vol 3) **Flight from Neveryon**;  Vol 4) Return to Neveryon (aka The Bridge of Lost Desire).
ISBN-13: 9780819562777
ISBN-10: 0819562777
Publication Date: 2/15/1994
Pages: 378
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Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
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