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Lord Valentine's Castle

Lord Valentine's Castle

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 . . . (First published 1980)


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““Come,” Deliamber said. “There is a vast journey ahead of us.”
“I know. That’s why I don’t want to get up.””

Book 3 “The Book of the Isle of Sleep”, Chapter 2 (p. 231)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)

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Robert Silverberg photo
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Robert Silverberg photo
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“What matters,” he said earnestly, “is the display of skill, not the manners of the audience.”

Book 1, Chapter 10 (p. 71)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)

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Robert Silverberg photo

“I think power is a sickness and governing is a folly for madmen.”

Book 1, Chapter 15 (p. 113)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)

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