Lord Valentine's Castle
core novel 1980 Majipoor Cycle
Record
| First published | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (10,117 ratings, collected 2026-08-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060140267 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Majipoor Cycle
- Series: The Lord Valentine Cycle core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robert Silverberg
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 1981: won; Confirmed directly via sfadb.com's own Locus Awards Winners By Category page (the accepted primary source for Locus lineage claims).
- Hugo Award (Best Novel), 1981: nominated; Confirmed directly via thehugoawards.org's own 1981 history page; did not win -- The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge won.
Notes
- From the series record (The Lord Valentine Cycle): Majipoor Chronicles (a linked collection of 5 short stories and 5 novelettes/novellas, each following a different point-of-view character across Majipoor's history) is registered Core, not Expanded, under the collection-as-Core exception -- it is the primary reading unit for book 2 of this cycle, not a peripheral side collection.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Lord Valentine Cycle: position 1 of 4: next Majipoor Chronicles (1982)
- Internal chronology, within Majipoor Cycle: position 1 of 7: next Sorcerers of Majipoor (1997)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Majipoor series
- sfadb -- Locus Awards Winners By Category
- The Hugo Awards: 1981 Hugo Awards
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