{"product_id":"lord-valentines-castle-volume-1-paperback","title":"Lord Valentine's Castle: Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Silverberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this epic, \"[a] brilliant concept of the imagination,\" an amnesiac wanderer rediscovers his destiny as ruler of a vast planet (\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then Valentine begins to dream--and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Absorbing . . . a wildly imaginative universe.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious \u003cem\u003ePrix Apollo.\u003c\/em\u003e He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics \u003cem\u003eDying Inside\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Time of Changes\u003c\/em\u003e -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are \u003cem\u003eLegends\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFar Horizons, \u003c\/em\u003e which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 462\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759187132704,"sku":"9781504087155","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/61c98ceaebe1fecaf50abd33a27a41f4.webp?v=1780144768","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lord-valentines-castle-volume-1-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}