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The jewels of Aptor / Samuel R. Delany.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Delany, S.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regression (Civilization)--Fiction.
- Regression (Civilization).
- Poets--Fiction.
- Poets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ace, [1968]
- Summary:
- It is a post-atomic future and civilization has regressed to a Middle Age like world. Geo a young student and poet, takes a job on a boat with a strange passenger, a priestess of the goddess Argo. They are heading toward a land of mutants and high radiation, Aptor, to recapture her daughter who has been kidnapped by the forces of the dark god Hama
- Notes:
- "Due to the Ace format and considerations of length, we were obliged to cut the book by a third in its original publication six years ago. We are happy now to be able to reissue The Jewels of Aptor in its complete and final form."--introduction.
- Cover art by Jeff Jones.
- Title page art: Jack Gaughan.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 42297
- ISBN:
- 0575001313
- 9780575001312
- OCLC:
- 1069044
- Publisher Number:
- G-706 Ace Books
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