Lord Valentine's Castle

Paperback | 1 November 1999

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The first volume in Silverberg's most memorable and ambitious fantasy series, the Majipoor Cycle. Lord Valentine's Castle is the first book in the legendary Majipoor cycle, revealing the vast and teeming fantasy world of Silverberg's bestselling series. From the heart of the labyrinth, the Pontifex rules Majipoor by telepathic command and by the terror sent by the King of Dreams. High above on Castle Mount, his adopted son the Coronal lives in state, holder of the Starburst Crown. When a conspiracy overthrows the legitimate Coronal and replaces him with an imposter, the treason is concealed by sorcery...until a dream reveals it to Valentine, a travelling juggler. Valentine cares nothing for princes. A free man and a happy one, he pities his namesake Lord Valentine the Coronal, second most luminous of the Powers of Majipoor. He hates the sorcery of imperial might and the worship of the Starburst Crown. But when the time comes for the guardians of the dream to rise up, Valentine must answer to them.

Industry Reviews

On the vast and beautiful world of Majipoor, where many intelligent races live peacefully together in a rosy post-industrial harmony founded on obedience to the inner truths revealed in dreams, an amnesiac wanderer takes up with a troupe of traveling jugglers. Disturbing dreams shortly make known his real identity: he is Lord Valentine the Coronal or supreme ruler of Majipoor, cast by sinister arts into a strange body while an impostor governs from his great castle. The true Lord Valentine and his friends (a brotherhood of four-armed jugglers and their human partners, a tentacled sorcerer, a good-natured giantess) make their way across half the planet to confront the false Coronal. Silverberg, usually a glibly competent narrator in any mode he undertakes, seems to run out of energy long before these unremarkable proceedings lumber to their mealy-mouthed conclusion. In terms of sf underpinnings, Majipoor is an inexcusably flimsy construct; and a large cast of promising characters is left rattling around the lengthy and plodding narrative in such a meagerly developed state as to resembled blighted peas in a pod. Disappointing. (Kirkus Reviews)

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