The Jewels of Aptor
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Subjects: Science fiction; Science Fiction
Description: <p>At the command of the goddess Argo, the poet Geo and his companions Urson, Snake, and Iimmi travel to the island of Aptor to steal a powerful jewel from the god Hama. They contend with monsters, mystery, and the ruins of an earlier age—but their quest is not what it seems.</p> <p><i>The Jewels of Aptor</i> is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-r-delany">Samuel R. Delany’s</a> first published novel, written when he was a teenager. In it we see many of the concerns that occupied him in later work: language, poetry, myth, perception, and tensions between worldviews, wrapped in gorgeously poetic prose.</p>