The Majipoor Series by Robert Silverberg
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Overview: Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction’s most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth and Lord Valentine’s Castle, as well as At Winter’s End, also available in a Bison Books edition. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.
Genre: Science Fiction
Lord Valentine’s Castle (Majipoor: Lord Valentine #1) : Valentine, a wanderer who knows nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city, and joins a troupe of jugglers and acrobats; gradually, he remembers that he is the Coronal Valentine, executive ruler of the vast world of Majipoor, and all its peoples, human and otherwise…
Lord Valentine’s Castle was the first of Robert Silverberg’s novels about Majipoor, in which he has for two decades explored the question of responsibility and authority; much SF and fantasy plays with constructed dreams of feudalism, but Silverberg asks the important questions of how a ruler can be a good person, and how can the person who rules all be free themselves.
Lord Valentine’s Castle is a blend of SF worldbuilding & poetic fantasy. Silverberg has created a world long settled by spacefaring powers, aliens & humans alike, whose technological prowess is losing its edge. Hightech devices like antigravity floaters & weather control devices are an accepted part of Majipoor life, but ordinary people tend to regard them as magical. The pattern of life is far more medieval for most: Bioengineered mounts plow fields & pull carriages while minstrels scratch out a living by following the time-honored custom of moving from town to town, hoping for friendly crowds.
Valentine’s journey is a long one, a tour thru a series of magnificent environments. Fields of predatory plants give way to impossibly wide rivers, chalk-cliffed islands & unforgiving deserts. The prose is unrelentingly dreamlike—no accident given that on Majipoor, dreams rule the minds of great & humble alike. Caught in a nightmare that reaches beyond his sleeping hours to control his real-world choices, Valentine too is enshrouded in layers of mystery. Tho he recovers his memories & purpose, he never quite comes into focus. Instead he’s washed toward a confrontation at Castle Mount like a leaf rides a current.
Despite its ethereal beauty, Majipoor is no utopia. Humans sit firmly atop its political food chain, while the Metamorphs are at its base, dispossessed of ancestral lands, serving as scapegoats for social ills. Using this situation, Silverberg casts light on a variety of pertinent social concerns. Lord Valentine’s world is a peaceful place whose citizens enjoy a significant degree of freedom. Even so, racism, imperialism & class haven’t been vanquished. This compassionate & clear-eyed portrait of a reasonably decent society that could, with inspired leadership, pursue a higher ideal of justice is what makes Lord Valentine’s Castle a novel worth revisiting
Majipoor Chronicles (Majipoor: Lord Valentine #2) : The national bestselling saga of Robert Silverberg’s stunning imagination continues in the first new hardcover "Majipoor" novel in nearly a decade. As a prequel to Silverberg’s earlier "Majipoor novels." "Sorcerers of Majipoor" provides a deep, dark vision for the background of the conflict inLord Valentine’s Castle and Valentine Pontifex.Treachery and wizardry run rampant under the reign of the mighty Pontifex, as both the rightful and the unworthy heirs to the throne anxiously await his demise. Korsibar, son of the current Coronal, plots with his twin sister and ambitious companions to seize the power of the Coronal when his father ascends to the throne of the Pontifex.
But the burdens of the crown and scepter exact more of a price than Korsibar is prepared to pay. His rival fights to take his appointed place as keeper of his beloved Majipoor…and to resbackse order to the utter chaos that has befallen their world.
Valentine Pontifex (Majipoor: Lord Valentine #3) : The national bestselling saga of Robert Silverberg’ s stunning imagination continues in the first new hardcover "Majipoor" novel in nearly a decade. As a prequel to Silverberg’ s earlier "Majipoor" novels. "Sorcerers of Majipoor" provides a deep, dark vision for the background of the conflict in Lord Valentine’ s Castle and Valentine Pontifex.Treachery and wizardry run rampant under the reign of the mighty Pontifex, as both the rightful and the unworthy heirs to the throne anxiously await his demise. Korsibar, son of the current Coronal, plots with his twin sister and ambitious companions to seize the power of the Coronal when his father ascends to the throne of the Pontifex.
But the burdens of the crown and scepter exact more of a price than Korsibar is prepared to pay. His rival fights to take his appointed place as keeper of his beloved Majipoor…and to resbackse order to the utter chaos that has befallen their world
The Mountains of Majipoor (Majipoor: Lord Valentine #4) : For young Prince Harpirias, the journey into the frozen tundra of remote Majipoor might well have been a death sentence. His mission? To rescue a party of scientists kidnapped by an uncivilized race who dwell beyond Majipoor’s borders. He faces blizzards, ice storms, strange beasts, and barbarism, not knowing whether he’ll return a hero–or not return at all.
Sorcerers of Majipoor (Majipoor: Lord Prestimion #1) : The Long-Awaited Prequel A thousand years before Lord Valentine, the destiny of kings is hostage to sorcery and deceit.
On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change. The aged Pontifex Prankipin, who brought sorcery (and prosperity) to the Fifty Cities of Castle Mount, is dying. The Coronal Lord Confalume, who will become replacement is chosen. It is no secret that the next Coronal will be prince Prestimion. By law and custom, the blood son of the present Coronal–has a secret quarry–the Starburst Crown. Visited by an oracle, Korsibar has heard a prophecy that will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration and alter destiny itself: ""You will shake the world "
Lord Prestimion (Majipoor: Lord Prestimion #2): Prestimion should be jubilant. As the new Coronal Lord of Majipoor, the Starburst Crown is his at lost. But the victorious lord is burdened with a great secret: he gained the throne through a bloody civil war — a war no one remembers With the aid of a phalanx of sorcerers, Prestimion dropped the awesome Spell of Oblivion over his people to heal his war-torn land. Forgotten now are the betrayals, the intrigues, and the slaughter. Only Prestimion and two of his surviving comrades-in-arms know anything happened at all.Yet Prestimion must still account for his world’s devastation and do the impossible: bring to justice the kinsman who languishes in the dungeon because no one can recall his unforgivable crime. And in his hour of triumph, Prestimion will face a threat to his kingdom for more insidious than war — a twisted madness that cannot be controlled…
The King of Dreams (Majipoor: Lord Prestimion #3) : The years since first he gained the Starburst Crown have been difficult ones for Coronal Lord Prestimion and the vast, unfathomable realm he rules. But finally peace has been restored to Majipoor. And now it is time for Prestimion to name the able Prince Dekkeret his succeeding Coronal and to descend to the Labyrinth as Pontifex. But a power from a dark past that both men believed was dead is stirring once again — an evil more potent and devastating than either leader dares to remember. Once, decades past, a then knight-initiate Dekkeret had his dreams stolen from him. His quest for recovery led him to a remarkable helmet that could invade the psyches of sleeping foes, a device the newly anointed Coronal Prestimion later used to defeat his enemy Dantirya Sambail, tyrant of the continent Zimroel. In the fires of civil war, the terrible weapon was destroyed forever — or so it was believed. The noxious weed of rebellion was torn out at its roots but its seeds have borne frightening fruit. Dantirya Sambail is dead, and the hungry jackals who ran at his heels now scheme to recover his lost lands and power. At their head is the tyrant’s former henchman Mandralisca — a villain of great wiles and icy heart, who somehow has unleashed a devastating plague of the mind upon Prestimion’s subjects. Dark visions are invading the sleep of those loyal to the Lords and the Lady of Majipoor — soul-shattering scenes of madness and monstrosity, driving those inflicted to commit horrible, destructive acts. And the dark wave is flowing ever-closer to the throne, seeping beneath the doors of the 30,000 rooms of the towering edifice atop Castle Mount … and into sacrosanct depths of the Imperial Labyrinthitself
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