Robert Silverberg - Sorcerers of Majipoor

Prestimion smiled at that. And Confalume said, “Yes, ‘my son,’ is what I said. For I had always wanted a son, but the Divine would never send me one. But now I have one. For by law the Coronal is deemed the son by adoption of the Pontifex, is he not? And so you are my son, Prestimion. You are my son!” And then Confalume said, after a time, “You should marry, Prestimion. Surely there’s a woman somewhere who’d be a fitting consort for you.”

“Surely there is,” said Prestimion, “and may it be that I find her, someday. And let us say no more on that subject now, eh, Father? In time there’ll be a wife for me, that I know. But I am not quite ready just yet, I think, to set about searching for her.” And the thought came to him of the woman that he and only two others in all the world knew had once existed. But of her he could say nothing, and never would again.

So it was that the great war of the usurpation had its end and vanished from the minds of the people of Majipoor, and the world’s great age began anew. The reign of Confalume and Lord Prestimion together lasted many years, until Confalume in the immensity of his years was gathered to the Source, and Prestimion became Pontifex himself after a long and glorious time as Coronal, which the world would long remember and cherish. And the man Lord Prestimion chose to be Coronal when it was time for him to go to the Labyrinth was named Dekkeret, whose reign would be a glorious one also. But that is another story.

Robert Silverberghas 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 sort 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 an 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.

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EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2001 ISBN: 9780061804779

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