Majipoor Chronicles

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.

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

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