Robert Silverberg

Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle)

Sarah Sammis

This book was the first by Robert Silverberg I ever read. I loved it (still do). Silverberg continues to be one of my favorite authors.

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...

Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle)

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