- American Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, sword and sorcery, adventure
A group of interrelated stories taking place in an ambiguous distant past setting that on the surface resembles sword-and-sorcery. As always, Delany works his magic by drawing you in with vivid sensory immediacy, and then opening up uncountable doors of thought into language, semiotics, politics, economy and technology.
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Grave, contemplative, open-ended and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Samuel R. Delany
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575119239
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