{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities.  Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four  (Return to Neveryon, Vol 2)  \r\nPryn, 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.\r\nContents:\r\n    Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities \u2022 [Neveryon 2 \u2022 novel]\r\nAppendix A: The Culhar' Correspondence \u2022 shortstory by Samuel R. Delany\r\nAppendix B: Acknowledgments (Neveryona) \u2022 essay by Samuel R. Delany\r\n\r\n\"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)."}, "title": "Neveryo\u0301na", "covers": [7247711, 4283408, 6453768], "subject_places": ["a location that might be Africa or Asia", "Nev\u00e8r\u00ffon", "Kolhari", "Enoch"], "subjects": ["American Science fiction", "American Fantasy fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "fantasy", "sword and sorcery", "semiotics", "metafiction", "sexuality", "slavery", "politics", "African-American authors", "dragons", "astrolabe", "gardens", "models", "writing", "literacy", "Fiction, general"], "subject_people": ["Gorgik the Liberator", "Prynn", "Gorgik", "Madame Keyne", "Noyeed"], "key": "/works/OL56821W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4391444A"}}], "subject_times": ["before the dawn of history", "distant past"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 19, "revision": 19, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T21:35:48.749013"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-09-17T02:24:54.811588"}}