Author: Robert Silverberg
Volumes:
Genre: Fantasy and SF
Volume I - Lord Valentine's Castle
( Lord Valentine's Castle , 1980) Editrice Nord Majipoor is a world giant, land colonized by the beginning of interstellar travel. It is a large and diverse planet, metal-poor but rich in strange cities and peoples, humans and aliens. Many billions of intelligent beings living on Majipoor: along with the human, we have the native breed of metamorphosis, and the big creatures with four hands and known by the name of Skandar, and small breed of magicians Vroon, and many other peoples still. For thousands of years Majipoor has been ruled in peace by the Pontifex, the emperor who spends most inscrutable walled part of his life in a huge underground maze of Alhanroel the continent, and the Coronal, the executive regent of the kingdom, who lives in an ancient castle situated on top of Castle Mount, a mountain of almost unimaginable height. But now, for the first time in the history of the planet, Coronal faces a mysterious and terrible challenge, in a power struggle begins in a small tavern in the province, with the appearance of a strange character named Valentine, a young vagabond with no memory. Extremely loving and good nature, Valentine, who joined a group of jugglers, girovagherà the streets and cities of this beautiful world, becoming gradually aware of their lost past and, along with a growing group of devoted followers, will start towards that magical destiny of greatness that awaits him at the top of the gigantic mountain of Mount Castle. 
Volume II -
The Chronicles of Majipoor
( Majipoor
Chronicles, 1982)Editrice Nord
In the Castle of Robert Silverberg Lord Valentine he had presented his latest creation: a beautiful and exotic world, a world colonized by the huge land in the early years of the journey interstellar medium, large and diverse, metal-poor but rich in strange cities and peoples, humans and aliens. Now Silverberg returns to explore Majipoor and its huge potential for life and stories. An entire planet becomes the protagonist, and readers can experience this imaginative and complex landscape of new, wonderful perspective. Hissune, the young man of humble birth but of great intelligence who performs secretarial duties for Lord Valentine, wanders lazily in the Hall of Records to relieve the tedium of his work among the tedious paperwork and sneaks into memories "stored telepathically" of people who lived in times distant and recent. Here, then, develop in front of him and our great perspective on the story and the geography of a world extremely alive and fascinating. We will see exciting and mysterious adventures in the huge seas and in the vast deserts of Majipoor, to love stories and crimes in its lush tropical jungles and towering buildings of his magnificent city: quirky, incredible mix of action, magic and fantasy created by 'imagination of a great writer.
Volume III - The Valentine Pontifex ( Valentine Pontifex, 1983) Editrice Nord Silverberg Lord Valentine shows us hours to grips with the tasks of government, including intrigue and palace conspiracies and rebellions, and about to assume the difficult role of Pontifex and retire in the underground labyrinth. Of noble and gentle, kind and deeply pacifist, Valentine clashes with his putative successor, the tough and pragmatic Hissune on how to govern Majipoor, suddenly became very turbulent. Their conflict and its resolution at the end of an exciting series of incredible stories are at the base of this magnificent masterpiece, which is also the human tapestry and symbolic of a world palpably real and convincing, filled with great people like Mrs. 's Isle of Sleep, The King of Dreams, and the elusive, mysterious metamorphosis.
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