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''Return to Nevèrÿon'' is a series of eleven “sword and sorcery” stories by Samuel R. Delany, originally published in four volumes during the years 1979-1987. Those volumes are: *''Tales of Nevèrÿon'' *''Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities'' *''Flight from Nevèrÿon'' *''Return to Nevèrÿon'' The eleven tales are discussed in the articles devoted to the individual volumes mentioned above. The rest of this article is dedicated to the series as a whole. ==Overview== The eleven tales that make up Return to Nevèrÿon are set before the dawn of history. Nevèrÿon (pronounced "Ne-VER-y-on" according to the preface to "Tales of Nevèrÿon") is the land the stories are set in, a name derived from the aristocratic neighborhood of Neveryóna (pronounced "Ne-ver-y-O-na") in the capital city Kolhari. The modern-day geographical location of Nevèrÿon is never made clear. The men and women of the reigning civilization have brown to black skin. Barbarian tribes live to the south: a people with pale skin, yellow hair, and light eyes. By the time the stories start, clearly some amount of racial mixing has occurred. But the barbarians were for many years the slaves of the dominant brown-skinned culture, especially for mining and agriculture (as we learn in both “The Tale of Gorgik” and ''Neveryóna'') —and in many places still are. 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. Currently the eleven stories are collected in four volumes, put out by Wesleyan University Press. At the end of the fourth book, ''Return to Nevèrÿon'' (1996), the first tale is reprinted, to emphasize the cyclic nature of the series. The tales themselves are discussed in the articles devoted to each individual volume. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Return to Nevèrÿon (series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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