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The Jewels of Aptor

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Plot introduction
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The Jewels of Aptor is a 1962 science fantasy novel by Samuel R. Delany, his first published novel. It first appeared in shortened form as an Ace Double F-173 together with Second Ending by James White.

From the 1968 edition onwards, Delany's original text has been restored, as the first edition was shortened by about fifteen pages for publication in the Ace Double format. ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot introduction

In a post-atomic future, when civilization has regressed to something near the Middle Ages or even before, a young student and poet, Geo, takes a job as a sailor on a boat. He travels with a strange passenger, a priestess of the goddess Argo, who is heading toward a mysterious land of mutants and high radiation, called Aptor. The journey is presumably made to recapture a young priestess of Argo: her daughter (her little sister in the Ace Double version), who has been kidnapped by the forces of the dark god Hama.

References

1. ^"Afterword", A, B, C: Three Short Novels, Delany, 2015, section III. Although the later editions are often described as "revised", Delany did only routine copyediting to his original text. "My personal sense is that this was no sort of rewrite. There was no revising of incident, characters, setting, or structure."
2. ^Barbour 1979, p. 163.
3. ^Pringle 1990, p. 171.
4. ^Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 315.

Sources

{{cite book |last=Barbour |first=Douglas |authorlink= |title=Worlds Out Of Worlds: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany |location=Frome, Somerset, UK |publisher=Bran's Head Books Ltd. |year=1979 |isbn=0-905220-13-7}}
{{cite book |last=Clute |first=John |authorlink=John Clute |last2=Nicholls |first2=Peter |authorlink2=Peter Nicholls (writer) |title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |year=1995 |edition=2 |isbn=0-312-13486-X}}
{{cite book |last=Pringle |first=David |authorlink=David Pringle |title=The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction |location=London |publisher=Grafton Books |year=1990 |isbn=0-246-13635-9}}
{{cite book |last=Tuck |first=Donald H. |authorlink=Donald H. Tuck |title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy |location=Chicago |publisher=Advent |year=1974 |isbn=0-911682-20-1 |page=137}}

External links

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{{Gutenberg|no=41981|title=The Jewels of Aptor}} (original Ace Double text)
{{librivox book | title=The Jewels of Aptor | author=Samuel R. DELANEY}}

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