Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany

But the barbarians were for many years the slaves of the dominant brown-skinned culture, especially for mining and agriculture (as we learn in both “The Tale of Gorgik” and Neveryóna) – and in many places still are. By the time the stories start, clearly some amount of racial mixing has occurred. Barbarian tribes live to the south: a people with pale skin, yellow hair, and light eyes. The men and women of the reigning civilization have brown to black skin. Nevèrÿon (pronounced 'Ne-VER-y-on' according to the preface to Tales of Nevèrÿon) is the fictional land the stories are set in, a name derived from the aristocratic neighborhood of Neveryóna (pronounced 'Ne-ver-y-O-na') in the capital city Kolhari. The eleven tales that make up Return to Nevèrÿon are set before the dawn of history. The rest of this article is dedicated to the series as a whole. The eleven tales are discussed in the articles devoted to the individual volumes mentioned above. Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities.Delany, originally published in four volumes during the years 1979–1987. In a mode of good will.Return to Nevèrÿon is a series of eleven sword and sorcery stories by Samuel R. Name of a vaguely sinister ''safety.'' ''Life is most pleasurable,'' Delany writes, when large numbers of people ''seek out interclass contact and communication conducted The new Times Square, he feels, is a symbol of the desire to stamp out contact in the In favor of ''contact,'' the freewheeling encounters with strangers that most New Yorkers have in public places. Delany sees a continuing class war raging silently in our society. Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red,'' decidedly academic, builds an argument mostly based on Marxist theory. Writes that he himself was a frequent patron, and his descriptions of the various sexual activities in places like the Venus and the Cameo can almost imbue them with a sense of cheery bonhomie. What went on there? Mostly, we discover, multitudes of gay (and straight) men from various walks of life congregated to participate in all manner of sexual activities. The now vanished porn theaters of Times Square. ''Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.'' ''Times Square Blue'' constitutes what he calls a ''periplum'' Ñ an extremely detailed view of what occurred within S the reconstruction of Times Square a good thing? The novelist Samuel Delany answers with a vehement ''no'' in the two essays of

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany