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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 . . .

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)

Come to Majipoor, the magnificent, exotic planet of LORD VALENTINE’S CASTLE. Come with Hissune, favourite of Lord Valentine, as he probes the deepest secrets of Majipoor’s long past in the depths of the great Labyrinth.

Join Hissune as he becomes one with its many peoples – dukes and generals, thieves and murderers, Ghayrogs and Metamorphs – and discovers wonder, terror, longing and love, and learns the wisdom that will shape his destiny.




(First published 1982)