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"This is fantasy that challenges the intellect . . .  semiotic sword and sorcery, a very high level of literary gamesmanship.  It's as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian." —USA Today"The tales of Nevèrÿon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . .  Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative.  Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining."—Washington Post Book World"Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs."— , New York Times Book Review"Instead of dishing out the usual, tired mix of improbable magic and bloody mayhem, Delany weaves an intricate meditation on the nature of freedom and slavery, on the beguiling differences between love and lust . . . the prose has been so polished by wit and intellect that it fairly gleams."—San Francisco Chronicle