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  David Horwich is a Consulting Editor for Strange Horizons.

  About the Author

  ROBERT SILVERBERG has won five Nebula Awards, five Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels—including the bestselling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes—and more than sixty nonfiction works. Mr. Silverberg’s acclaimed Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universes 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.

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  By Robert Silverberg

  The Majipoor Cycle

  LORD VALENTINE’S CASTLE

  VALENTINE PONTIFEX

  MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES

  THE MOUNTAINS OF MAJIPOOR

  SORCERERS OF MAJIPOOR

  LORD PRESTIMION

  THE KING OF DREAMS

  Other Titles

  STARBORNE

  HOT SKY AT MIDNIGHT

  KINGDOMS OF THE WALL

  THE FACE OF THE WATERS

  THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES

  THE ALIEN YEARS

  Credits

  Jacket illustration by Jim Burns

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THE LONGEST WAY HOME. Copyright © 2002 by Agberg, Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  “Speculative Fictions: An Interview with Robert Silverberg by David Horwich”: The questions are copyright © 2000 by David Horwich. Reprinted with permission. The answers are copyright © 2000 by Agberg, Ltd. Reprinted with permission. The editorial notes are copyright © 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

  EPub Edition © JULY 2002 ISBN: 9780061832918

  First Eos hardcover printing: July 2002

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