A Memory of Something That Never Happened: Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany

[randy_byers]

Early on, it occurred to me that the relationship of the Nevèrÿon series to semiotics/semiology might be, for better or worse, much like that of Van Vogt's Null-A series to General Semantics. (Delany, "Appendix B: Closures and Openings")

In Appendix B of Flight from Nevèrÿon, Delany calls the Nevèrÿon tales "a Child's Garden of Semiotics." This is

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[mcjulie]

You've definitely gotten me interested in reading this!

[randy_byers]

Of course as soon as I posted this I found a blog review by a woman who found the gay sex boring. Ah well, she liked the feminism.