In this novel of Neveryóna, a girl takes off on a dragon’s back for an adventure of amazement and wonder.One of the few in Neveryóna who can read and write, pryn has saddled a wild dragon and taken off from a mountain ledge. Self-described as an adventurer, warrior, and thief, in her journey pryn will meet plotting merchants, sinister aristocrats, half-mad villagers, and a storyteller who claims to have invented writing itself. The land of Neveryóna is mired in a civil war over slavery, and pryn will also find herself — for a while — fighting alongside Gorgik the Liberator, from whom she will learn the cunning she needs as she journeys further and further south in search of a sunken city; for at history’s dawn, some dangers even dragons cannot protect you from.The second volume in Samuel R. Delany'sReturn to Neveryóna cycle, Neveryóna is the longer of its two full-length novels. (The other is The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals.)An intriguing meditation on the power of…