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Valentine Pontifex

Author	: Robert K. Silverberg
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2012-12-31
ISBN	: 1101598247
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Valentine Pontifex written by Robert K. Silverberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Bestselling Saga by Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg Plagued by nightmares of Majipoor besieged by blizzards and earthquakes, Lord Valentine believes these omens signal an encroaching war between his people and the Shapeshifters who once ruled the planet. For centuries they have conspired to regain their stolen world and recently, they were discovered impersonating members of the kingdom’s inner circle. Since coming to power, Valentine has made peaceful overtures to the Shapeshifters, actions that have many in the royal court questioning his motives and loyalties—and led them to consider removing him from his governing duties so that he may ascend to the higher ceremonial office of Pontifex. But if Valentine accepts the mantle of Pontifex and surrenders his position to his successor-in-waiting, he may be remembered as a leader who evaded his responsibilities—and shattered the peace that has reigned for eight thousand years...

Valentine Pontifex

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1983
ISBN	:
Pages	: 356 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valentine Pontifex written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lord Valentine's Castle

Author	: Robert K. Silverberg
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2012-05-01
ISBN	: 1101585420
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Lord Valentine's Castle written by Robert K. Silverberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Bestselling Saga by Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg Lord Valentine’s Castle He is a man with no past— a wanderer without memory of his origins. He calls himself Valentine. As a member of a motley group of entertainers, he travels across the magical planet of Majipoor, always hoping he will meet someone who can give him back what he has lost. And then, he begins to dream--and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him that he is far more than a common vagabond—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…

Legends II

Author	: George R. R. Martin
Publisher	: Del Rey
Release Date	: 2003-12-30
ISBN	: 0345471091
Pages	: 656 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Legends II written by George R. R. Martin and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, including Terry Brooks, Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, and Anne McCaffrey Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether set before or after events already recounted elsewhere, whether featuring beloved characters or compelling new creations, these masterful short novels are both mesmerizing stand-alones—perfect introductions to the work of their authors—and indispensable additions to the epics on which they are based. ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with “Homecoming,” a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . or is it a memory? GEORGE R. R. MARTIN continues the adventures of Dunk, a young hedge knight, and his unusual squire, Egg, in “The Sworn Sword,” set a generation before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire. ORSON SCOTT CARD tells a tale of Alvin Maker and the mighty Mississippi, featuring a couple of ne’er-do-wells named Jim Bowie and Abe Lincoln, in “The Yazoo Queen.” DIANA GABALDON turns to an important character from her Outlander saga—Lord John Grey—in “Lord John and the Succubus,” a supernatural thriller set in the early days of the Seven Years War. ROBERT SILVERBERG spins an enthralling tale of Majipoor’s early history—and remote future—as seen through the eyes of a dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in “The Book of Changes.” TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner, from his Otherland saga, in “The Happiest Dead Boy in the World.” ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light into the most mysterious and wondrous of all places on Pern in the heartwarming “Beyond Between.” RAYMOND E. FEIST turns from the great battles of the Riftwar to the story of one soldier, a young man about to embark on the ride of his life, in “The Messenger.” ELIZABETH HAYDON tells of the destruction of Serendair and the fate of its last defenders in “Threshold,” set at the end of the Third Age of her Symphony of Ages series. NEIL GAIMAN gives us a glimpse into what befalls the man called Shadow after the events of his Hugo Award–winning novel American Gods in “The Monarch of the Glen.” TERRY BROOKS adds an exciting epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara in “Indomitable,” the tale of Jair Ohmsford’s desperate quest to complete the destruction of the evil Ildatch . . . armed only with the magic of illusion.

Best Sellers

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1983
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Best Sellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections and Refractions

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2013-11-28
ISBN	: 0575106743
Pages	: 425 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Reflections and Refractions written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty years ago Robert Silverberg began writing a monthly column of opinion and commentary, for Galileo Magazine, Amazing Stories, and then for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Now he has chosen the liveliest and most relevant of his hundreds of magazine columns for the present collection. They constitute a vivid chronicle of events both in science fiction and the world in general over the past two decades. Robert Silverberg is one of the great veterans of fantasy and science fiction. During the course of a career that has now stretched across more than forty years, he has written dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them considered classics of the genre. He has won more major award nominations than any other writer in his field, and no less than nine Hugo and Nebula awards, the key s-f/fantasy trophies. His books have been translated into some eighteen languages and his short stories have appeared in every science-fiction and fantasy magazine in the world, as well as in Omni, Playboy, and Penthouse.

Legends

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	: Tor Books
Release Date	: 2001-09-08
ISBN	: 1429966572
Pages	: 720 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Legends written by Robert Silverberg and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2001-09-08 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told. The authors include King, Jordan, and Silverberg himself, as well as Terry and Lyn Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, and Raymond E. Feist. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Complete Critical Assembly

Author	: David Langford
Publisher	: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date	: 2002-10-01
ISBN	: 1587153300
Pages	: 342 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Complete Critical Assembly written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.

Tales of Majipoor

Author	: Robert K. Silverberg
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2013-05-07
ISBN	: 1101608838
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Majipoor written by Robert K. Silverberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “one of the most fully realized worlds of modern science fiction,”(Booklist) Majipoor is a planet unlike any other, with countless untold stories. Now, available for the first time in one volume, science fiction grand master Robert Silverberg presents seven tales that chronicle thousands of years of Majipoor’s history, from the arrival of the settlers of Old Earth, to the expansion of vast cities, to the extraordinary life of Lord Valentine. Within these stories lie the secrets of Majipoor, a wondrous world of incredible imagination...

Legends-Vol. 1 Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	: Tor Books
Release Date	: 2013-05-10
ISBN	: 1466844205
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Legends-Vol. 1 Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy written by Robert Silverberg and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great anthology of short novels by the masters of modern fantasy. Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria." Robert Silverberg returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valentine's adventure in an ancient tomb, in "The Seventh Shrine." Orson Scott Card spins a yarn of Alvin and his apprentice from the Tales of Alvin Maker, in "Grinning Man." Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga is the setting of the tale of "The Wood Boy." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Road to Castle Mount

Author	: Edgar L. Chapman
Publisher	: Praeger
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN	:
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Castle Mount written by Edgar L. Chapman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prolific, honored, and widely read science fiction writers, Robert Silverberg has forged a professional career that began in the 1950s and has flourished in succeeding decades. After first gaining fame for his magazine fiction, Silverberg embraced the ideals and methods of literary science fiction in the late 1960s and crafted a number of novels marked by symbolism and irony. After a period of silence in the 1970s, he resumed his career. Despite the appeal of his novels, Silverberg's achievement still eludes easy assessment. This book offers a broad study of Silverberg's growth as a writer, following his career from his early apprenticeship period to his later, fully mature books. Examining not only his work but also the literary contexts that shaped him, Chapman captures well Silverberg's development as a writer.

The Palace at Midnight

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2011-09-29
ISBN	: 0575106689
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Palace at Midnight written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Stories Volume 5: The Palace At Midnight (1980 - 1982) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the all time greats of science fiction. A professional writer for more than half a century, his short story output has been prolific and exceptional in quality. This series of nine volumes will collect all of the short stories and novella-length that SF Grand Master Silverberg wants to take their place on the permanent shelf. Each volume will be roughly 150,000-200,000 words, with classics and lesser known gems alike. The author has also graced us with a lengthy introduction and extensive story notes for each tale. Contents: Our Lady of the Sauropods Waiting for the Earthquake The Regulars The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa How They Pass the Time in Pelpel The Palace at Midnight The Man Who Floated in Time Gianni The Pope of the Chimps Thesme and the Ghayrog At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party The Trouble with Sempoanga Jennifer's Lover Not Our Brother Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory Dancers in the Time-Flux Needle in a Timestack Amanda and the Alien Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake The Changeling Basileus Homefaring

Paratexts

Author	: James Gunn
Publisher	: Scarecrow Press
Release Date	: 2013-04-18
ISBN	: 0810891239
Pages	: 242 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Paratexts written by James Gunn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called “Masterpieces of Science Fiction,” and “Masterpieces of Fantasy,” which featured some of the most important works in these genres. Author James Gunn was commissioned to write introductions to these works, which allowed him to pay tribute to many authors who inspired and influenced him. In Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gunn has collected the most significant essays produced for the Easton series, along with prefaces he wrote for reprints of his own novels. Drawing upon Gunn’s lifetime of work in the field, these introductions include analyses of the individual works and the fields in which they were written. Gunn also briefly discusses each novel’s significance in the science fiction canon. Collected here for the first time, these prefaces and introductions provide readers with insight into more than seventy novels, making Paratexts a must read for science fiction and fantasy aficionados.

Sequels

Author	: Janet Husband
Publisher	: American Library Association
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN	: 0838909671
Pages	: 782 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection

Author	: Gardner Dozois
Publisher	: St. Martin's Press
Release Date	: 1985-05-15
ISBN	: 1466807318
Pages	: 250 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1985-05-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the second installment in the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series: Fantastic Science Fiction! The Year's Best -- And Biggest Collection Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. Writers like: Robert Silverberg Lucius Shepard Jack McDevitt Octavia E. Butler Connie Willis Richard Cowper John Varley Gene Wolfe

Starhaven

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2015-07-30
ISBN	: 0575106506
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Starhaven written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of beachcombing on the pleasure planet of Mulciber, ex-engineer Johnny Mantell thought he had hit rock bottom. But when he was unjustly accused of murder, he knew there was worse to come. Johnny had to get out. And the only place for an outcast like himself was the impregnable outlaw world of Starhaven, a refuge that defied all galactic laws. Once there, Johnny's only wish was to forget the past and be left alone. But the super-science dictator of Starhaven had other plans for him. And soon Johnny found himself in the midst of one of the most explosive struggles the world had ever known. If he failed, not only his own life would be lost, but the future of galactic civilisation would be totally altered.

Nightwings

Author	: Robert Silverberg
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2011-09-29
ISBN	: 0575106174
Pages	: 188 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Nightwings written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Earth has reached its Third Cycle, a tired planet basking in the faded glories of a lost civilisation. Long ago it had been great - but the pride and greed of its rulers had brought about a terrible downfall. And now Earth was threatened. Far out in space an alien race waited. Once they had been the victims of a crime perpetrated by the human race - now they were ready to return as conquerors. As a Watcher, Tomis had spent his life searching the skies for signs of the impending invasion. And when it finally came, it was to disrupt not only his world but his whole life in a way he had never dreamed was possible. (First published 1969)