/lit/ - Literature

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Robert Silverberg's Lord Valentine's Castle is the first of a long series of books written in the 1980s, set in a low-tech fantasy world with several cohabiting species, about an exiled prince with amnesia who becomes a traveling juggler. Over the course of the books he gradually regains his memory, an army, and his throne, There is camaraderie, travelogues, lore and history, love interests and a revenge plot. It has an unabashedly light tone and derivative plot, but the prose is pleasantly lucid and visually interesting. I see it as a counterpoint to its direct contemporary, Book Of The New Sun.