Book description
Set in an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic, almost
magical, machinery, Valentine, an itinerant juggler, wakes up one
morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is. He gradually
discovers, through dreams and portents, that he is in fact his namesake:
Lord Valentine, the Coronal, his body and throne stolen by a usurper.
Across the giant world of Majipoor, Valentine sets out on a quest to win
back his throne - and discover which of his enemies has the power to
vanquish him so utterly from not just his throne, but his very life . .
. (First published 1980) 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.
