Valentine Pontifex
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novel
Year: 1983
ID: 1226
Publication history:
- ????: Valentijn de Opperpriester, Luitingh-Sijthoff Trade paperback, 414 pp., in Dutch
- 1983: Valentine Pontifex, Arbor House Hard cover book, 347 pp.
- 1984: Valentine Pontifex, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24494-9, 368 pp.
- 1984: Valentine Pontifex, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 247 pp.
- 1984: Valentine Pontifex, Gollancz Hard cover book, 347 pp.
- 1985: Valentin de Majipoor, Laffont Hard cover book, ISBN 2221043901, 363 pp., in French
- 1985: Valentin Pontifex, Pabel/Moewig Mass market paperback, ISBN 381183682X, in German
- 1988: Valentine Pontifex, Pan Mass market paperback, 367 pp.
- 1989: Valentine Pontifex, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0553244949, 368 pp.
- 1990: Valentin de Majipoor, Livre de Poche Mass market paperback, ISBN 2253052493, 575 pp., in French
- 1992: Valentine Pontifex, Pan Mass market paperback, 367 pp.
- 1995: Valentine Pontfice, Ultramar Mass market paperback, ISBN 8473864972, in Spanish
- 1995: Valentine Pontifex, Pan Mass market paperback, 367 pp.
- 1995: Valentine Pontifex, Lbbe Mass market paperback, ISBN 340424205X, 476 pp., in German
- 1996: Valentine Pontifex, Harper & Row Mass market paperback, 478 pp.
- 2000: Valentine Pontifex, Voyager Mass market paperback, ISBN 000648378X
- 2000: Valentine Pontifex, Fictionwise Online
Blurb:
(from Bantam 1984)
Dark dreams stir Lord Valentine's sleep. The Shapeshifters scheme in secret to regain their stolen world, and confusion and chaos are whispered on the winds of Majipoor. A planet that has known only peace for countless centuries must now prepare itself for war.
To save Majipoor, Valentine faces an anguishing choice — accept the mantle of Pontifex and surrender the high office of Coronal to his ambitious young successor Hissune, or use his own great powers to avert a long nightmare of bloodshed and battle.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
The third book in the Majipoor series begun with Lord Valentine's Castle and Majipoor Chronicles, concluding the story of Valentine (since the others are set in different eras on the big planet). Well, almost concluding: is a short novel set after this book.
Things are not going well for the restored Lord Valentine. All across the continent of Zimroel, blights strike the crops; the sea-dragons have changed their migration path; vicious animals rampage through the land. The peace that has reigned for eight thousand years could be shattered at any moment, and Valentine does not want to be remembered as the Coronal who brought war back to Majipoor.