Jewels of Aptor
Author: first_name:  Samuel R.
last_name: Delany
Language: English
Year: 1962

Delany's first novel, from 1962, serves as a sort of prologue to the subsequent Captives of the Flame, 1963. Set several centuries after the Great Fire -- a nuclear holocaust -- a young woman seeks her destiny with the help of a four-armed youth. (Summary by BellonaTimes)