Sep 13
Stevie Comments: Samuel Delaney’s Neveryona is so-over-the-top hetero soft porn. And the lead character is supposedly gay! What a bubble butt he’s got! I wish I had one of those! And what’s he doing with that giant sword, anyway?
Published 1983
Amazing! Many thanks to Stevie!
September 13th, 2010 at 8:36 am
There’s no looking anywhere else with this one. Your eyes go automaticly to his bum cheeks.
September 13th, 2010 at 9:13 am
SI hit the nail on the… ass
September 13th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I don’t understand why he can’t afford more fabric. The women can apparently afford flowing gowns, not something typically known in your average hunter-gatherer culture.
September 13th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Is that sneaky barbarian trying to stab her in the back while she’s not looking?
September 13th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Neveryóna
Never again will yon buttocks not attract the gazes of the unwilling
September 13th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
“… he playfully recreates the beginning of civilization.”
Yeah, because nothing screams “the beginning of civilization” like a man-thong, worked leather belts, metal knives, and what looks like a pirate cutlass.
September 13th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Seamyst, how do you think civilization began? What you list above screams seduction.
September 13th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
So he’s wearing a thong and… an ascot?
September 13th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I can tell that this cover is going to be the butt of a lot of jokes. While the cover artist may have been flying by the seat of his pants, we should not paddle this to death. The quality of the book itself is the issue that should rear its head. That is what matters in the end.
September 13th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
DoDoGuRu
No, I believe he got his ascot in his thong.
And what a thong! It looks like a chain mail wedgie.. you’d need tough buns to wear that. But then, he looks like he could crack walnuts with his butt-cheeks.
September 13th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
A chain mail wedgie? My first thought was leopard-skin.
September 13th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Another cheeky cover from Good Show, Sir. Note also the non-matching leg colours for our hero, and non-matching arm colours for our heroine.
September 13th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Tom, it’s not the seat of the artist’s pants that I’m worried about.
Phil, unfortunately not possible due to a certain asspect of the work.
September 14th, 2010 at 5:27 am
Was there a sequel? “Neveroffya?”
September 14th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Oh, is he wearing an ascot? I thought that was his hair.
September 15th, 2010 at 10:59 am
I do like to think when she originally started staring out to sea he was fully clothed. Soon when she turns she’ll see the glory of his… ‘short sword’
September 15th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Seriously, his ass is like a magnet for my eyes.
His left thigh, looks like it has a huge gaping dent/hole on it. I’m guessing the artist meant it to be a shadow, but it looks like he is missing about 1/2 a stone of muscle and bone.
September 15th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
SI, now I have to find a copy of _Jurgen_ with an appalling cover, since that of course has the sword comment in it (as well as every other double entendre one could possibly imagine).
March 16th, 2014 at 2:49 pm
I think that for the next printing they should replace the pull quote with CSA’s:
“His ass is like a magnet for my eyes.”
October 7th, 2014 at 10:38 am
Omg you guys are a riot-I was looking for a review of this book as I randomly picked it up to read, and only really half-glanced at the cover…till now. I keep thinking of these comments and can’t seem to (literally) stop laughing out loud, while other people in the room are wondering about the weird lady who keeps chuckling under her breath and murmuring ‘ass-magnet’
July 18th, 2015 at 11:41 am
“[T]he beginning of civilization”?
So these are Adam and Eve
…which might explain the edict of “Never Yon A”.
June 24th, 2016 at 9:30 am
A semiotics primer disguised as a Sword and Sorcery version of ‘Spartacus’. If only Paul Ricoeur had thought to put in some dragons and bondage.
June 24th, 2016 at 9:43 am
Thongor will prevail.
June 24th, 2016 at 10:53 am
“We’re now safe from the EU… I no longer need to take my post guarding the sea.”
June 24th, 2016 at 11:26 am
Thong Week on GSS continues. Today’s episode: David Cameron gets hard up for work after the Brexit.
June 24th, 2016 at 11:48 am
Boris plans his new Cabinet: “And, uh, Peter Stringfellow as Culture Secretary.”
June 24th, 2016 at 1:46 pm
The EU mandates new pants regulations requiring the Brits to show they’re asses.
June 24th, 2016 at 1:55 pm
@Bibliomancer: only 51% of us are. Boris was always half-assed.
June 24th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Thongor waiting for civilization so Thongor can get ridiculous looking sandals.
The whole cover. Easy on the hyperbole Mr Sturgeon.
http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/gal/wrap/Delany-Neveryona.jpg
June 24th, 2016 at 2:13 pm
@Tat Wood – I feel your pain. I have the shame of Trump traipsing around your golf courses giving press conferences.
June 24th, 2016 at 2:22 pm
@fred: Gorgik? That fellow’s name is Gorgik the Liberator? It just might be a dumber name than Thongor! Good show, Mr. Delany.
(Parenthetically, I fancy the dragon’s expression is because the formerly-floating castle has just pinched down upon his tail.)
June 24th, 2016 at 4:24 pm
BREAKING: Pounds fall as Tag Wizard converts glutes to BitCoins; GSS to be rechristened goodshowsir.co.gi. 😉
June 24th, 2016 at 8:26 pm
@Tat Wood 22—actually he did, but only with his grad students.
June 25th, 2016 at 10:12 am
I’m pretty sure Neveryona is Marks & Spencer’s replacement for Per Una.
June 26th, 2016 at 7:31 pm
George Clooney’s plan for a paparazzi-free honeymoon had just two flaws.
June 27th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
“How do you keep your loins girdled, Thongor? What keeps your thong from falling off?”
“Buns of steel, m’lady… buns of steel!”
November 27th, 2020 at 10:08 am
Does the “R” stand for “Ride-up”?
November 27th, 2020 at 1:05 pm
Does the “R” stand for “Rearward”?
November 27th, 2020 at 5:43 pm
“But Hunkbutt, why won’t you let me have a go at those steely, girdled loins?”
“Because, as M’Lady must know, I don’t swing that way. So I will be beside you, but neveronya.”
November 28th, 2020 at 4:12 am
Delany likes big butts, he can not lie…
I’d ask where he sticks that big sword when he’s not holding it at half mast (I don’t see a scabbard) but the possible replies worry me.
@B. Chiclitz: five stars.
November 29th, 2020 at 4:10 am
I can’t take my eyes off dat ass either. So round, so firm, so fully packed. Lifted and separated and presented to the unwary book shopper.
I hope that guy, gay or not, is into bondage. Else a (reptile?) leather thong is just too cruel. And all those other leather straps!
@BC: GSS!