{"publishers": ["Wesleyan University Press", "University Press of New England"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["128719"], "goodreads": ["81758"]}, "table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities.  Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four  (Return to Neveryon, Vol 2)", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Pryn, who can write in the largely pre-literate land, flees her mountain village on the back of a dragon, searches for Neveryona, a fabulous lost civilization, encounters a host of intriguing characters along the way, and aids Gorgik's slave revolt.", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Contents:", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities \u2022 [Neveryon 2 \u2022 novel]", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Appendix A: The Culhar' Correspondence \u2022 shortstory by Samuel R. Delany", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "Appendix B: Acknowledgments (Neveryona) \u2022 essay by Samuel R. Delany", "pagenum": ""}, {"level": 0, "label": "", "title": "\"Return to Neveryon\" is a series of eleven \u201csword and sorcery\u201d 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).", "pagenum": ""}], "weight": "1 pounds", "series": ["\"Return to Neveryon\", a series of eleven \u201csword and sorcery\u201d stories"], "covers": [618120], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223124959918", "urn:sfpl:31223124959900", "urn:sfpl:31223033179756"], "physical_format": "Trade Paperback", "lc_classifications": ["PS3554.E437 N4 1993", "PS3554.E437N4 1993"], "key": "/books/OL1409226M", "ocaid": "neveryonaortaleo00dela", "publish_places": ["[Middletown, Conn.]", "Hanover, NH"], "subtitle": "or: The Tale of Signs and Cities.  Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four", "isbn_13": ["9780819562715"], "pagination": "399 p.", "classifications": {}, "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part23.dat:108593528:888", "ia:neveryonaortaleo00dela", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run02.mrc:130081288:1838", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part22.utf8:162986881:894", "bwb:9780819562715", "amazon:0819562718", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-003.mrc:343561330:1166"], "title": "Neveryo\u0301na", "lccn": ["93017847"], "number_of_pages": 404, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "isbn_10": ["0819562718"], "publish_date": "1993", "publish_country": "nhu", "copyright_date": "1983", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL56821W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "physical_dimensions": "8.4 x 5.4 x .9 inches", "oclc_numbers": ["502408017"], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-23T23:40:10.789838"}}