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The Emperor and the Maula by Robert SilverbergPublisher: Subterranean, 2017
ISBN is 9781596068452 / 1596068450
Hardcover
5.8 x 8.4 inches, 151 pages
Robert Silverberg's The Emperor and the Maula was written in 1992 for an aborted publishing project and has been printed only once, in a radically abbreviated version. This deluxe new edition restores more than 15,000 words of missing text, allowing us to see, for the first time, the author's original intent. The result is both a genuine publishing event and an unexpected gift for Silverberg's legion of readers.
The Emperor and the Maula is Silverberg's Scheherazade tale, the story of a woman telling a story in order to extend and ultimately preserve her life. The Scheherazade of this striking story is Laylah Walis, denizen of a far-future Earth which has been invaded and conquered by a star-faring race known as the Ansaarans. Laylah is a maula, a barbarian forbidden, under pain of death, to set foot on the sacred home worlds of the imperial… Read More