by Robert Silverberg
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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The plot blurb looks awfully cliche, and the cover is that delicious old-fashioned kind of terrible, but the author is one who I know to be a big damn deal, so when I found it for cheap (in a surprisingly healthy copy) I figured it was worth grabbing. At the least it will feel very comfortable.
This is a long damn book, but once I stopped trying to make everything happen right now and just settled in for the ride it was a great ride, full of strange and beautiful and funny and awesome things and people.
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