Howard's seminal stories of that genre, and I can easily imagine that Delany was responding to them (among other fictions and factualities) when writing Nevèrÿon. But on reflection, it does represent a new turn for the sort of fabulous prehistory supplied by Robert E. I was a little puzzled by the characterization of this book in the appended note on the author as "sword and sorcery," since there is certainly no sorcery in it at all. There are no supernatural elements, no storybook giants or fairies.* If Tolkien's Middle Earth was a step closer to our world than Dunsany's Pegāna, Delany's Nevèrÿon is a considerable stroll in our direction. This fantasy is imaginative, but far less "fantastic" than most. Each "Tale of" people and doings in Nevèrÿon ends up linked to the others on multiple levels, and all of them take place over roughly a single generation. … ( more)Īt first glance, the title and table of contents for this book make it look like a set of disparate fantasy stories in a shared setting, but it is in fact an integrated novel. Delany including rare images from his early career. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R.
This "eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining" ( The Washington Post Book World) novel reads "as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian" (USA Today). They are an epic feat of language, an ironic analysis of the foundations of civilization, and a reminder that no weapon is more powerful than a well-honed legend.
In these sagas of barbarism, new knowledge, and sex, you'll find far more than in most sword-and-sorcery. His is the through-story that, now in the background, now in the foreground, connects these first five stories, in Tales of Nevèrÿon-and, indeed, all the eleven stories, novellas, and novels that comprise Delany's epic fantasy series, Return to Nevèrÿon, where we can watch civilization first develop money, writing, labor, and that grounding of all civilizations since: capital itself. When, in the savagely primitive land of Nevèrÿon, finally he wins his freedom, Gorgik is ready to lead a rebellion against the rulers of this barely civilized land. A boy of the bustling, colorful docks of port Kolhari, during a political coup, fifteen-year-old Gorgik, once his parents are killed, is taken a slave and transported to the government obsidian mines at the foot of the Faltha mountains. Delany's epic fantasy-the first in a series-explores power, gender, and the nature of civilization.
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Samuel R.
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