5/24/2023 0 Comments Delany neveryon![]() It is only here that one can truly play the game. ![]() I finally decided to start on the series because the setting intersects ideally the course I am following about the civilization of the eastern Mediterranean and the rise of urban culture in the ancient world.įor sword and sorcery to be at its best, one needs a landscape that is ‘on the brink of civilization’ in an almost scientifically ideal way. Return to Nevèrÿon is a sword & sorcery series set in a pre-historic time, in which humanity is transitioning from a primitive, free-roaming state, to a settled, city-based civilization. You can huff and puff in frustration, but you will not drop the book and move to something friendlier. The thing about Delany I mentioned above is this – even when his plot appears to be hard to catch, and his linguistic games become disorienting, there is still something there, in the sound of the words, in the images, in the white spaces between words, that compels us to go on and see where this will take us. ![]()
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