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Sorcerers of Majipoor. 1997 Sorcerers of Majipoor
by Robert Silverberg
First Edition 1997
Macmillan
London
ISBN 0333644867
Hardback in dust jacket
Cover illustration by Jim Burns
536 pages
Price: £16.99

Notes
Sorcerers of Majipoor, a Majipoor novel by Robert Silverberg.

The first part of the Prestimon trilogy.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1997 HarperPrism hardback edition, ISBN 006105254X. Cover illustration by Jim Burns.

Publisher's Blurb – Jacket Flaps
A thousand years before Lord Valentine, the Majipoor Cycle explores another grand epic in a world conceived on a truly epic scale.

One of the best-loved science fiction sagas of all time finds new resonance in this unforgettable tale of treachery and passion, destiny and war.

On the gigantic planet Majipoor, it is a time of ancient mysteries and new wonders. The aged Pontifex Prankipin, who brought sorcery (and prosperity) to the Fifty Cities of Castle Mount, is at last near death. Omens are seen, prodigies are born, wine and blood are consumed . . . even the sea-dragons have been glimpsed from the cliffs. Truly, a great change is at hand!

The Coronal Lord Confalume, who will become Pontifex, decides to begin the Funeral Games before his own 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 cannot rule the seemingly endless castle with its 30,000 rooms. Besides, everyone knows that young Korsibar is an outdoorsman. preferring the pleasures of the hunt to the intrigues of the court.

What everyone does not know is that the hunter has a new and secret quarry – the Starburst Crown. Korsibar has been visited by an oracle. From the thin lips of the two-headed Su-Suheris, he has heard the whispered words that will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration, engulfing all the myriad races of Majipoor in a war to alter destiny itself.

"You will shake the world!"

Robert Silverberg's bestselling Majipoor Cycle, set on the most magnificent and splendorous world in all SF, has long been considered one of the jewels in speculative fiction's crown. Coming after a ten-year hiatus between novels, this thousand-year prequel enriches and illuminates the tapestry of the whole, and reveals its depth of history and legend.

"A brilliant concept of the imagination."
-Chicago Sun-Times

"Silverberg has created a big planet, chock-a-block with life and potential stories."
-The Washinaton Post

ROBERT SILVERBERG'S many novels include the bestselling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes. He has been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards more times than any other writer; he is a five-time winner of the Nebula and a four-time winner of the Hugo.

 
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