Tales of Nevèrÿon

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480461733
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Samuel R. Delany’s epic fantasy—the first in a series—explores power, gender, and the nature of civilization. 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. 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. 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. In these sagas of barbarism, new knowledge, and sex, you’ll find far more than in most sword-and-sorcery. 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. 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). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

Tales of Nevèrÿon

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819562708
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1979 American Book Award nominee contains five interlocked stories that tell of the slave Gorgik in a long-ago land, and a masked swordswoman narrates an astonishing feminist creation myth.

Tales of Neveryon

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575119233
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Neveryon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five inter-connected stories set in a mythical past focus on the experiences of the slave Gorgik and deal with aspects of the beginning of civilization. Contents: "The Tale of Gorgik" "The Tale of Old Venn" "The Tale of Small Sarg" "The Tale of Potters and Dragons" "The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers."

Flight from Nevèrÿon

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148046175X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Flight from Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas and a full-length novel set in the land at the limit of history: “The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery” (The Washington Post Book World). In The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, a disease has come to Nevèrÿon. Men, rich and poor, have been stricken with it—but far fewer women. More and more die, and no one recovers. The illness seems to have first come from the Bridge of Lost Desire, a hangout for prostitutes male and female, but its spread through the city has been terrifying. And it will change Nevèrÿon forever, both its sexual and its political landscape. Written in 1984, The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals is an astute fictionalization of New York City in the first two years of the AIDS crisis. Interwoven with the ancient story are Samuel R. Delany’s modern accounts of what went on in the meanest streets of Gotham during that time. This wholly original novel (the first novel about AIDS from a major American publisher) is presented along with two other stories about mummers, prostitutes, and street people in the fantastic land of Nevèrÿon and its capital, port Kolhari—an ancient city that becomes more and more modern with each story. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

Return to Nevèrÿon

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480461768
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Return to Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVSlavery is outlawed, Nevèrÿon is free, and Gorgik the Liberator must revisit the mines for a final struggle where he himself was once a slave/divDIV Alone in a deserted castle in the Nevèrÿon countryside, a great warrior and a young barbarian meet at midnight to tell each other tales from their intersecting lives. But are they really alone? And, if they aren’t, what will it mean for Nevèrÿon . . . ?/divDIV The three stories in this volume end Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon saga and cycle. But they are also its beginning—taking us back to the start of Gorgik’s epic—although, from what we’ve learned from the others, even that has become an entirely new story, though not a word in it has been changed . . ./divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career./divDIV/div/div

Neveryóna, Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Neveryóna, Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities written by Samuel R. Delany and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of myth and literacy, Nevèrÿona tells how young Pryn, who can write in this largely pre-literate land, flees her mountain village on a dragon's back for Neveryon's capital port, Kolhari, to aid Gorgik's rebelllion. Now on the Bridge of Lost Desire, now in Madam Keyne's emotionally embattled gardens, now at an empty, moonlit mansion in Nevèrÿon - Kolhari's old artistocractic neighbourhood - and finally through a journey into the dangerous south, Pryn finds more answers - and questions - about Nevèrÿon's power structure.

Neveryóna

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480461741
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Neveryóna written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Tales of Nevèrÿon “continues to surprise and delight” with this thought-provoking epic fantasy (The New York Times). One of the few in Nevèrÿon who can read and write, pryn has saddled a wild dragon and taken off from a mountain ledge. Self-described as an adventurer, warrior, and thief, in her journey pryn will meet plotting merchants, sinister aristocrats, half-mad villagers, and a storyteller who claims to have invented writing itself. The land of Nevèrÿon is mired in a civil war over slavery, and pryn will also find herself—for a while—fighting alongside Gorgik the Liberator, from whom she will learn the cunning she needs as she journeys further and further south in search of a sunken city; for at history’s dawn, some dangers even dragons cannot protect you from. The second volume in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon cycle, Neveryóna is the longer of its two full-length novels. (The other is The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals.) An intriguing meditation on the power of language, the rise of cities, and the dawn of myth, markets, and money, it is a truly wonder-filled adventure. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

Dark Reflections

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486809099
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Dark Reflections written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a homosexual African-American poet. Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story offers moving meditations on loneliness and sexual repression.

Atlantis

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571938
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Atlantis written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Hugo and Nebula–winning author, three literary tales trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self. Wesleyan University Press has made a significant commitment to the publication of the work of Samuel R. Delany, including this recent fiction, now available in paperback. The three long stories collected in Atlantis: three tales—”Atlantis: Model 1924,” “Erik, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrences Aesthetic of Unrectified Feeling,” and “Citre et Trans” —explore problems of memory, history, and transgression. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and Guest of Honor at the 1995 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Delany was won a broad audience among fans of postmodern fiction with his theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy. The stories of Atlantis: Three Tales are not science fiction, yet Locus, the trade publication of the science fiction field, notes that the title story “has an odd, unsettling power not usually associated with mainstream fiction.” A writer whose audience extends across and beyond science fiction, black, gay, postmodern, and academic constituencies, Delany is finally beginning to achieve the broader recognition he deserves. “Delany, who’s best known for his science fiction . . . takes a variety of literary turns in these three novellas that chronicle the experience of the African American writer in the 20th century. . . . Balanced and full of intricate layers of prose, these novellas present a potpourri of literary references, detailed flashbacks and experimental page layouts. Delany seamlessly meshes graceful prose, cultural and philosophical depth and a knowledge of different forms and voices into a truly heady, literate blend.” —Publishers Weekly “Delany sketches sympathetic portraits of young black men aswim in the dense, sweet hives of American cities.” —New York Times Book Review

Triton

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ISBN 13 : 9780586214206
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Triton written by Samuel R. Delany and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Towers of Toron

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575119144
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Towers of Toron written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have received warning. The Lord of the Flames is loose on Earth once more." Once before the Lord of the Flames had been driven halfway across the universe. His return would mean a new era of chaos and conflict for the populace of Earth. The Lord of the Flames was a strange adversary - a force of evil devoid of physical substance. He sought warmth in unpredictable places: creeping into the soul of a worm or the stem of a flower or the mind of a man.

The Adventures of Alyx

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Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Alyx written by Joanna Russ and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819567140
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues—technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism—have only become more pressing with the passage of time. The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is—you!

Tales of Nevèrÿon

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Nevèrÿon

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ISBN 13 : 9780553228427
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1979 American Book Award nominee contains five interlocked stories that tell of the slave Gorgik in a long-ago land, and a masked swordswoman narrates an astonishing feminist creation myth.

Aye, and Gomorrah

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375706712
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Aye, and Gomorrah written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction--but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred-fifty years from now, when men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children so passionately yearn to visit distant galaxies that they'll kill to go. Brilliantly crafted, beautifully written, these are Samuel Delany's award-winning stories, like no others before or since.

Nova

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375706704
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Nova written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesn’t know, though, is that Lorq’s quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that he’ll stop at nothing to achieve it. In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanity’s oldest truths and enduring myths.