Lord of Darkness
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novel
Year: 1983
ID: 675
Publication history:
- ????: Lord of Darkness, Trafalgar Square Hard cover book, ISBN 0575033479
- 1983: Lord of Darkness, Arbor House Hard cover book, ISBN 0-87795-443-7, 559 pp.
- 1984: Lord of Darkness, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24362-4, 613 pp.
- 1984: Lord of Darkness, Gollancz Hard cover book, 559 pp.
- 1985: Le Seigneur des tnbres, Laffont Hard cover book, ISBN 2221012925, 633 pp., in French as Le seigneur des tnbres
- 1989: Herr der Finsternis, Lbbe Mass market paperback, ISBN 3404281756, 603 pp., in German
- 1993: Herr der Finsternis, Lbbe Mass market paperback, ISBN 3404134761, 953 pp., in German
- 1995: Herr der Finsternis, Lbbe Mass market paperback, ISBN 3404252454, 698 pp., in German
- 1996: Le Seigneur des tnbres, tome 2: Le Guerrier, Denol Hard cover book, ISBN 2207244571, 439 pp.
- 1996: Le Seigneur des tnbres, tome 1: Le Navigateur, Denol Hard cover book, ISBN 2207244563, in French as Le seigneur des tnbres
Blurb:
(from Bantam 1984)
In the late 16th century, young British seaman-adventurer Andrew Battell is abducted by Portuguese pirates while seeking treasure off the coast of Brazil. Shipped in chains to the steamy slave-trading colony of Angola, he is seduced and betrayed by a passionate woman, tortured in Angola's foulest dungeons, then finally condemned to death. Escaping to the African interior, Battell begins the most frightening adventure of his life—a nightmare journey into a strange and exotic world, where, to survive, he rises to become trusted blood brother to the barbaric and mysterious warrior-king call the Lord of Darkness.
Other resources:
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Comments:
Not science fiction, but still really cool. An English sailor gets shipwrecked in Africa in the late 16th century. Kind of an African Shogun. The title character of this book also shows up in To the Land of the Living. And the novel serves to prove once again that Silverberg can make even a cannibal king into a character you understand, though you may not like him.