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Majipoor Chronicles

By: Robert Silverberg
Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Don Leslie, Scott Peterson
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Summary

The best-selling fantasy saga that began with Lord Valentine's Castle 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, a massive library of memory cubes in which the entire history of Majipoor is preserved.

As Hissune prepares for a summons to return to Castle Mount, he relives the lives of Majipoor's most famous and notorious inhabitants, learning more about the people and his new land than anyone else in the kingdom. As he becomes one with its many peoples - dukes and generals, thieves and murderers, Ghayrogs and Metamorphs - he discovers wonder, terror, longing, and love and learns wisdom that will shape his destiny.

©1982 Agberg, Ltd/Robert Silverberg (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"If you like tales with an exotic Arabian Nights piquancy, this book belongs in your hands." ( Washington Post Book World)

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Majipoor Revisited

I read this book when it was first released and I was still a teenager. More than thirty years later it's still just as enjoyable , perhaps even more so. A clever way to give an insight into the history and political set up of Majipoor. bring on the next installment.

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It's remarkable

This is a stunning book, in my view. It doesn't matter if you haven't read others in the series (I hadn't): it stands in its own right. Other reviewers seem to read it as "more information about Majipoor": I just read it as a book. The world-building is certainly masterful, but (as Lord Valentine says at the end) it's more about the geography of the mind. Minds of a better kind than ours, though: certainly there are injustices and anxieties on Majipoor, but the minds Silverberg imagines are mostly deeply reflective and ethical. It is, perhaps, an imagining of what we might be.

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