Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor 1)
This is the first British paperback edition of this 1980 novel. First book in Silverberg's epic "Majipoor" sequence, it was followed by the novels "Valentine Pontifex" (1983), "The Mountains of Majipoor" (1995), as well as other novels and shorter works.
This is the first British paperback edition of this 1980 novel. First book in Silverberg's epic "Majipoor" sequence, it was followed by the novels "Valentine Pontifex" (1983), "The Mountains of Majipoor" (1995), as well as other novels and shorter works.
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ISBN:
9780330264624 (0330264621)
Publish date: January 1st 1981
Publisher: Pan Books (London)
Pages no: 506
Edition language: English
Series: Lord Valentine (#1)
This may have been the first Silverberg story I read. Almost certainly the first novel, and I think it's the best work of his that I've read (and a clear step above others in the series). I still have the paperback I bought around the time this first came out - despite the fact that I foolishly left...
Valentine finds himself outside the city of Pidruid one afternoon, completely bereft of memory, as the city makes ready for the arrival of Lord Valentine - one of the four great Powers of the mega-world of Majipoor. what's a man to do in such a situation? why, join a traveling band of jugglers, of c...
By the looks of the blurb on this book, it seemed like it would be a fairly standard 'quest' type book with elves and dwarves and nasty evil folk. And you know what, it pretty much is (only elves and dwarves are replaced by 'aliens' making it Sci-Fi not fantasy). At times it can be a little slow, an...
I've had this book recommended to me a number of times, and I was prepared to love it... but I didn't.The world-building in this book was phenomenal. I thought it was fantastic, stunning, etc. A giant planet known as Majipoor was settled, well, whenever humans fell from the sky and took the joint...
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