The Longest Way Home (Gollancz S.F.)

by RobertSilverberg (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $5.39

  Joseph is a 15 years old, a Master of Homeworld, a young boy of privelege. A guest at his distant relatives, the House of Getfen, he awakes one night to a surprise attack by the Folk of Getfen, rebelling against their overlords. Saved by a faithful family servant, Joseph is faced with a long journey back to his own family through a continent torn apart by civil insurrection. Robert Silverberg's latest novel tells the tale of a new world inhabited by settlers from Earth. His trademark stylish prose evokes a fuedal society inspired and indebted to ancient Rome, and the alien planet it has colonised.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $6.87

  For more than a thousand years, Homeworld has been unchanged: the Great Houses rule and peace between them is enforced by unbreakable webs of kinship. The Folk accept what the system offers them - stability, prosperity and peace - and the Indigenes are placid. Then, on one night of rebellion everything changes, as the Folk overthrow the Great Houses. Joseph, the young son of one Great House is visiting another and survives the violence, but his home is ten thousand miles away and communications and transport have been destroyed. For all he knows his family may have been wiped out but his only hope lies in making that ten thousand mile trek across a world turned strange and hostile.