Book description
It is a thousand years from now. The tenuous galactic empire humanity
has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace
and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots
are gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price:
the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to
bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic
blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent, romantic but
implacable. Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub,
once and future King of Gypsies? Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been
planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary
life. But when the moment of truth arrives, nothing seems to go
according to (Yakoub's) plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice (even
his pride) may not be enough . . . Robert Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert
Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, and is one of the
most prolific authors of all time, writing not just SF & Fantasy,
but extensive non-fiction and a large number of pseudonymously published
erotica novels. In his first years as a professional writer, his output
regularly exceeded a million words per year. He has won and been
nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards dozens of times as both writer
and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA Grand Master Award. Among his
many acclaimed and bestselling novels are A Time of Changes, The Book of
Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's Castle. Robert Silverberg
lives on the West Coast of the United States with his wife, author,
editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
