Majipoor Chronicles

First edition (publ. Arbor House)
Cover art by Loretta Trezzo

Majipoor Chronicles is a collection of ten stories (five short stories, three novelettes and two novellas) by Robert Silverberg, published in 1982. The stories are all part of the Majipoor series.

Plot summary[]

The stories involving a young man reviewing memory records of other people, as a framing device.^[1]

Contents[]

• "Prologue"
• Stories:
  • "Thesme and the Ghayrog" (1982), novelette
  • "The Time of the Burning" (1982), short story
  • "In the Fifth Year of the Voyage" (1981), novelette
  • "Calintane Explains" (1982), short story
  • "The Desert of Stolen Dreams" (1981), novella
  • "The Soul Painter and the Shapeshifter" (1981), novelette
  • "Crime and Punishment" (1982), short story
  • "Among the Dream-Speakers" (1982), short story
  • "A Thief in Ni-Moya" (1981), novella
  • "Voriax and Valentine" (1982), short story
• "Epilogue"

Reception[]

Dave Langford reviewed Majipoor Chronicles for White Dwarf #48, and stated that "Pleasant and highly competent, they never quite engage the emotions they should."^[1]

Reviews[]

• Review by Jeff Frane (1982) in Locus, #254 March 1982
• Review by Baird Searles (1982) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1982
• Review by Ian Watson (1982) in Foundation, #26 October 1982
• Review by Nigel Richardson (1983) in Vector 114
• Review by Chris Amies (1992) in Vector 166

References[]

External links[]

• Majipoor Chronicles title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database