The Bridge of Lost Desire is part of the Neverijon series that includes Tales of Neveryon (1979), Neveryona (1983), and Flight from Neveryon (1985).

The Bridge of Lost Desire connects closely with the rest of the Neveryon series and fills in gaps left in the earlier narratives. Gorgik, Myrgot, and the city of Kolhari, where the bridge of the title is located, are already familiar. So are the patterns of slavery, sexual exploitation, raw power, and Byzantine court intrigues found in Neveryon.

What is stressed more strongly in this book, however, is the emphasis on return and reinterpretation. The appendix by "Steiner" cites a passage in Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, about home as a place that can never, by definition, be visited for the first time; this suggests that the swordand-sorcery series about Neveryon and the "diptych" of which Stars in My Pocket Like...