The Jewels of Aptor
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| The Jewels of Aptor | |
 Cover of first edition paperback |
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| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science Fiction |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Publication date | 1962 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 156 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
The Jewels of Aptor is a 1962 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany, and is Delany's first published novel. Prior to this, he had sold a pair of articles to Seventeen Magazine, only one of which was printed. A year before that, two prize stories had appeared in the national student magazine, Literary Cavalcade. The book first appeared as an Ace Double with Second Ending by James White.
[edit] 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 with a strange passenger, a priestess of the religion of goddess Argo, who is heading toward a mysterious land of mutants and high radiation, called Aptor, presumably to recapture a young priestess of Argo, her daughter, who has been kidnapped by the forces of the dark god Hama.
[edit] References
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 137. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
