{"identifiers": {"goodreads": ["602453"], "librarything": ["128719"]}, "table_of_contents": [{"title": "Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities.  Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four  (Return to Neveryon, Vol 2)", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"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.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"title": "Contents:", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"title": "Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities \u2022 [Neveryon 2 \u2022 novel]", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"title": "Appendix A: The Culhar' Correspondence \u2022 shortstory by Samuel R. Delany", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"title": "Appendix B: Acknowledgments (Neveryona) \u2022 essay by Samuel R. Delany", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"title": "Cover art by Rowena Morrill", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}, {"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).", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}, "level": 0}], "weight": "11.2 ounces", "series": ["\"Return to Neveryon\", a series of eleven \u201csword and sorcery\u201d stories"], "covers": [7247713, 4283408], "ia_loaded_id": ["neveryonaortale00dela"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3554.E437 N4 1983"], "latest_revision": 10, "ocaid": "neveryonaortale00dela", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part15.dat:232590092:716", "ia:neveryonaortale00dela"], "title": "Neveryo\u0301na", "edition_name": "1st ed.", "subjects": ["Science fiction, American"], "publish_country": "onc", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "physical_dimensions": "8.1 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches", "revision": 10, "publishers": ["Bantam Books"], "ia_box_id": ["IA147324"], "physical_format": "Mass Market Paperback", "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2014-04-05T20:33:58.610758"}, "key": "/books/OL3516562M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL4391444A"}], "publish_places": ["New York, NY USA"], "pagination": "ix, 385 p. ;", "classifications": {}, "subtitle": "or: The Tale of Signs and Cities.  Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "lccn": ["82090321"], "number_of_pages": 385, "isbn_13": ["9780553014341"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "isbn_10": ["055301434X"], "publish_date": "1Mar1983", "copyright_date": "1983", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL56821W"}]}