Synopses & Reviews
Visiting another noble house thousands of miles from his home, Joseph, the young scion of the great House Keilloran, is awakened one night by the sound of artillery fire. A massive rebel uprising has exploded around him, and now the young man just a boy, really must fight for his life. Rescued by a loyal slave who is then killed in the revolt, he is caught in enemy territory, cut off from all allies and marked for death. To reach safety, Joseph must traverse a hostile land populated by alien creatures some dangerous, some more sympathetic than the humans he meets. Surrounded by peril, he must find the courage that will carry him home, even as civil strife rips apart the world he knows.
Synopsis
A remarkable odyssey of survival and self-discovery in a perilous alien world in transition.
The privileged heir of a Great House ten thousand miles away, fifteen-year-old Joseph Master Keilloran awakens to the din of his world imploding. Frightened and alone, surrounded by enemies who would kill him without question, Joseph must now make his way across a strange, dangerous, and wondrous continent -- a desperate journey toward a home that may no longer exist.
About the Author
Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe 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. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.