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David Horwich is a Consulting Editor for Strange Horizons.
About the Author
ROBERT SILVERBERG has won five Nebula Awards, five Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels—including the bestselling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes—and more than sixty nonfiction works. Mr. Silverberg’s acclaimed Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universes 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.
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By Robert Silverberg
The Majipoor Cycle
LORD VALENTINE’S CASTLE
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
THE MOUNTAINS OF MAJIPOOR
SORCERERS OF MAJIPOOR
LORD PRESTIMION
THE KING OF DREAMS
Other Titles
HOT SKY AT MIDNIGHT
KINGDOMS OF THE WALL
THE FACE OF THE WATERS
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
THE ALIEN YEARS
Credits
Jacket illustration by Jim Burns
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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“Speculative Fictions: An Interview with Robert Silverberg by David Horwich”: The questions are copyright © 2000 by David Horwich. Reprinted with permission. The answers are copyright © 2000 by Agberg, Ltd. Reprinted with permission. The editorial notes are copyright © 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
EPub Edition © JULY 2002 ISBN: 9780061832918
First Eos hardcover printing: July 2002
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