Lord Valentine's Castle: Volume 1

In this epic, "[a] brilliant concept of the imagination," an amnesiac wanderer rediscovers his destiny as ruler of a vast planet (Chicago Sun-Times).

Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past.

Then Valentine begins to dream--and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him.

"An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction." --The New York Times Book Review

"Absorbing . . . a wildly imaginative universe." --People

Author: Robert Silverberg
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
Published: 02/13/2024
Series: Majipoor Cycle
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9781504087155

About the Author

Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.