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The Majipoor Chronicles (Majipoor Cycle) (Paperback)

by Robert Silverberg (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Voyager; New Ed edition (2 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006483798
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006483793
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 752,395 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The vast populous world of Majipoor with its strange political hierarchies and myriad alien races is one of the more impressive creations of planetary romance; Robert Silverberg brings to its exoticism his sensitive and evocative prose and his sense of story as an end in itself. The Majippor Chronicles is a collection of linked shorts, in which the boy Hissune, a minor character in Lord Valentine's Castle, rummages in archives of recorded memories and acquires an education in the ways of this particular world. A self-willed woman becomes a recluse and befriends a crippled lizard-man; a great navigator discovers the price of crossing a great ocean; a murderer is pursued by dreams and his own demons; a defrauded young woman discovers the rich ironies possible in a complicated civilisation; two brothers receive an ambiguous prophecy that we know will come true. Individually, these are powerful moody stories, full of memorable people whom we come to know intensely even in a few pages, but together they help amplify our sense of the vast reach of Majipoor in history and geography--and the education of Hissune becomes more than a framing narrative, it becomes another tale of Majipoor in its own right. --Roz Kaveney


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Majipoor Chronicles takes us further into Majipoor with a collection of stories covering thousands of years of the world's history. The bestselling fantasy saga that began with Lord Valentine's Castle and continued with Valentine Pontifex continues in Majipoor Chronicles as the young street urchin Hissune gets his due for helping Lord Valentine regain his throne. As a reward, he is sent into the depths of the Labyrinth where he relives the lives of Majipoor's most famous and notorious inhabitants. Each story has a universal truth to it that is haunting. In these fabulous tales the incredibly rich setting of Robert Silverberg's world of Majipoor is used to the full, sending the reader to new and wonderful places. The scope and detailed history Silverberg has created for this world is breathtaking.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The zenith of a master writer's most beautiful creation, 29 April 2002
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"The Majipoor Chronciles" is perhaps the most mesmerising of the tales of Majipoor, easily Robert Siverberg's most beautiful and entrancing creation. It covers the milestones of the building of Majipoori civilisation, from the first settlement of the contient Zimroel and the remarkable sharing of the world between human and alien settlers in "Thesme and the Ghayrog" to the establishment of the vast world's unique judical structure in "The Desert of Stolen Dreams" (which is explored in greater detail in the Second Majipoor Trilogy, the Prestimion Chroniciles). These short stories, all or most of which have the scope to become novels in their own right, give the reader a true sense of the world that is Majipoor, while revealing Silverberg's mastery of his craft, both as a storyteller, and as an author. Unlike many other epics such as Niven's Ringworld books or Asimov's foundation trilogy, the Majipoor Chronicles does not simply reveal breathtaking scope and fantastic ideas, but communicate what must surely be the wish of all writers, whether or not they work in the SFF field - humanity. Majipoor succeeds where works such as those I have mentioned above fail in their conveyence of the human (and I use this in the original sense of the word to mean creatures with souls) emotion and depth of their characters. Compassion pervades these stories, as perhaps the only link between all the characters over millennia and vast distances of story is that all have soul-shaking experiences within these pages. Two stories are of human-non human sexual relationships and the lessons of love with different and yet not so different partners. The future coronal Dekkeret must learn the value and the futility of guilt in burning Suvrael, while a vital sea-captain's soul breaks under the weight of it in "The Fifth Year of the Voyage". And a man (along of course with Hissune, the boy with a great destiny for whom all these lessons are taken from the Register of Souls) learns the limiatations of heroism and the price of waging war from the semi-legendary Lord Stiamot. These stories and others provide Hissune with the education he will need for the great task that awaits him (in "Valentine Pontifex"), but they also provide the reader with lessons of equal value that cannot fail to be carried into the reader's own life - the lessons of joy, the lessons - and the limits - of responsibility, the lessons of regret, and of pain, and of freedom of the soul. And such as Siverberg's skill that the reader is barely aware of these lessons - there is never a hint of moralsing or sermonising. The tales of "The Majipoor Chronicles" bear a startling similarity to the dreams of the people of Majipoor - they have a purpose, and something to teach, and power and wisdom to impart, to those who are willing to open their minds. They are carried into one's waking, one's "real" life -and perhaps beyond.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A journey through Majipoor, 25 Feb 2002
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This review is from: Majipoor Chronicles (Pan fantasy) (Paperback)
This book is a bit hard to describe - basically it is the middle part of the Majipoor Trilogy - but it is fundamentally different from the two other books (Lord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex).

While the two other books are "normal" novels, with one continuos action, this book is more like a collection of short stories.

The basis of the stories are the archives in the House of Records on the Planet Majipoor, here millions of people has left recordings of the memories.
Each story in the book are one of these recordings.

This leads the reader on a journey through both time and space, which can be read as important background for the other two books in the trilogy or as highly entertaining stories about people, their lives, and the relations between them.

With the Majipoor trilogy Robert Silverberg has created one of the most impressive worlds in modern fantasy.
Especially the society he describes makes it worthwhile to read these books.
In addition to this he has the gift of giving the characters real life - even in this book, where the single stories are quite short, he is able to make them interesting.

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