The Jewels of Aptor

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name = The Jewels of Aptor
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image_caption = Cover of first edition paperback
author = Samuel R. Delany
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science Fiction
publisher = Ace Books
release_date = 1962
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 156 pp
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"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.

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.

References

*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=137| date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1