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	Robert Silverberg's The Majipoor Chronicles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Majipoor, the world Silverberg creates in this series, has a bit of technology, but it is generally minimal and unobtrusive.
		Majipoor is a huge world that was settled over fourteen thousand years ago by people from Earth.
		It is true that men on Majipoor can learn archery, swordplay, and other martial skills, but there is a physical and emotional difference between knowing how to joust with a sword and actually killing a man with it.
	www.greenmanreview.com /majipoor.html (2176 words)

	Robert Silverberg's Majipoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Majipoor is so large that its human rulers invited non-humans to come and help colonize it, thousands of years before the time of Castle, the first book written.
		Majipoor does have a few isolated pockets where there is a separate language, or a separate religion, (even, in Prestimion, an area where several intelligent alien species live) but they are in the minority on the planet, and Silverberg does not dwell on them.
		The book begins by describing how the life of Majipoor is falling apart, with the agents being, in part, the metamorphs, and ends with the establishment of these Piurivars as equal and participating members of the society of Majipoor.
	home.earthlink.net /~mflabar/VenVance/Majipoor.htm (5275 words)

	Majipoor Chronicles : Majipoor Chronicles (Majipoor Cycle) (Robert Silverberg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Those who have read "Lord Valentine's castle" can't help but become amazed by Majipoor's imense size, its huge cities with billions of people of many alien races, and, most of all, the enigmatic and divided system of planetary administration, where dreams and the subconscient play a great part.
		Through eleven stories, some short, some a little longer, Silverberg explores many aspects of Majipoor: the relationship between the humans and the alien races, the huge geography of the planet, the influence of the King of Dreams, and other sociological elements.
		The Majipoor Chronicles are basically just a series of short stories based on events of the past on Majipoor.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0061054852.htm (462 words)

	Review: The Second Majipoor Series, reviewed by David Randall
		Majipoor, as previously described by Silverberg in his Lord Valentine trilogy, is an immense, low-density world with roughly the same gravity as Earth but three times Earth's land mass, its three continents squeezed close together (by Majipoori standards) on one hemisphere.
		Although putatively science fiction -- Majipoor is supposed to have been settled from Earth eleven thousand years ago, and various immigrant and native alien species share the planet with humans -- Majipoor is low-metal and therefore low-technology.
		Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	www.strangehorizons.com /2000/20001023/second_majipoor.shtml (880 words)

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		Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg: Set on the unimaginably huge world of Majipoor, this is the story of a king who is overthrown and has to journey back to his rightful place.
		Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg: While the copy I got from the library billed itself as "Book Two In The Majipoor Trilogy", this is really an aside in which a young character from Lord Valentine's Castle visits the past of his planet in the forms of several lives.
		This is really an anthology of short Majipoor stories, and the result is excellent taken either that way or as a single narrative.
	realtegan.blogspot.com /2004/04/rapid-reviews-majipoor-trilogy.html (392 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		In Lord Prestimion (1999), Majipoor's new ruler has been on the throne only a few years when a plague of madness born of his desperate spell threatens his rule, coincident with the actions of a leftover rebel, Dantirya Sambail, and Sambail's aide, Mandralisca.
		Several love stories are threaded throughout the larger themes: between Dekkeret and Fulkari, a woman reluctant to be the Coronal's wife despite her love; between Dekkeret's aide, Dinitak Barjazid, and a young swordswoman named Keltryn; and finally the ongoing marital ties involving Prestimion and Varaile.
		Nonetheless, most times this second Majipoor trilogy is positively Shakespearean in its play of fateful forces bigger than the characters who embody the urges.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue222/books.html (962 words)

	sffworld.com - Majipoor by Silverberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES is a collection of brilliant short fiction from various points in Majipoor's past, with original bridging material that falls between the other two books, therefore read them in the above order.
		THE MOUNTAINS OF MAJIPOOR is a stand-alone short novel that takes place hundreds of years later in Majipoor's history, and is probably best forgotten.
		I like the idea of a huge world, (which Majipoor is) and both the tremendous mountain where the Lords run things and the underground complex Labryinth, where the Emperor resides.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/printthread.php?t=9691 (1001 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lord Prestimion (The Majipoor Cycle): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Now Coronal of Majipoor, Prestimion's first mistake is to use a sorcerer's device to obliterate the Civil War universally from memory.
		Majipoor must be seen as the perfect world.
		He concentrates instead on repairing the damage done to Majipoor by the war, and on finding suitable punishment for the adversary he spared on the battlefield, the Procurator of Ni-moya, Dantirya Sambail.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0002246783 (578 words)

	Sorcerers of Majipoor (Prestimion Trilogy (Paperback))
		On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change.
		Majipoor has always had a fascinating juxtaposition of high-tech and feudalism, but common sense never seemed to be a rare comodity before.
		Generally I don't think the Majipoor novels are his best work and I get the impression that he churns out another Majipoor novel when he runs out of ideas for new work.
	www.quizbox.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=0061057800 (777 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: Sorcerers of Majipoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I'd never read a Majipoor novel by Silverberg before, and I found this to be a fantastic initiation into this massive world.
		Sorcerers of Majipoor was not as much a let down as Mountains of Majipoor, the installment that preceeded this current offering, but it certainly did nothing as far as redeeming the Majipoor Cycle.
		There are plenty of unexpected plot twists, and the landscape of Majipoor is as enchanting as ever, but the book fails to deliver in the way that the earlier works of The Majipoor Cycle did.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0061057800/customer-reviews (1450 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Sorcerers of Majipoor
		Perhaps for that reason, I was a bit reluctant to pick up Sorcerers of Majipoor, a prequel set a thousand years before the events of Lord Valentine's Castle, for fear that it wouldn't measure up to its predecessors.
		Majipoor is not an alternate world or dimension, but a planet, colonized by humans in the distant past and retaining vestiges of that original technology.
		He brings the great planet of Majipoor to vibrant and convincing life, as much a character in this drama as Prestimion, Korsibar, and the rest.
	www.sfsite.com /02a/sorc50.htm (1104 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Lord Prestimion
		As they travel through Majipoor, they discover that a terrible plague of madness is spreading across the world.
		Like Sorcerers of Majipoor, Lord Prestimion is a complex epic, with a large cast of characters, a strong central storyline, and a multitude of subplots.
		Majipoor, as much as Prestimion himself, is the novel's protagonist, and Prestimion's mystical bond with this amazing world, his care of it and his love for it, is a major theme.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/lp61.htm (900 words)

	Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg, a science fantasy book
		This book is set on Majipoor, a big planet inhabited by humans and many different species of intelligent aliens.
		Majipoor is an interesting place, if not quite as impressive as Silverberg hoped (not least because the maps of this supposedly enormous place are so simple and uninspired).
		The Majipoor series is the cornerstone of the third phase of Silverberg's career writing fiction.
	members.aol.com /tishede/silverberg.htm (1272 words)

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		In the Majipoor novels Silverberg makes us confront some of the darker aspects of mankind and grapple with our response to them.
		Hissune works as a clerk in the House of Records of the Labyrinth of Majipoor - the underground city from which the Pontifex administers the bureaucracy that runs most of the life of Majipoor.
		Murder is relatively uncommon on Majipoor, because the King of Dreams provides a legendary deterrent...
	www.thesession.org /shop/display.php/0061054852 (1352 words)

	Robert Silverberg--Lord Prestimion
		The savage civil war that brought him to the throne is over--though apart from himself and his two closest friends and advisors, there's no one in the world who knows this.
		There's a reason for these digressions: Majipoor, as much as Prestimion himself, is the novel's protagonist, and Prestimion's mystical bond with this amazing world, his care of it and his love for it, is the novel's major theme.
		It's a tour de force of imagination, a marvel of inventive detail--in many ways, the most gripping portion of the book, with a deeper and more completed feel than the somewhat perfunctory action sequences that draw the main storyline to a close.
	www.sff.net /people/victoriastrauss/ReviewPrestimion.html (632 words)

	Amazon.com: MOUNTAINS OF MAJIPOOR, THE: Books: Robert Silverberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hissune in Majipoor Chronicles and Valentine himself were living creations, but Harpirias and the Shapeshifter seem less full-fledged characters than elements tailored to further the plot.
		Exiled to Majipoor's forsaken borderlands for an act of youthful folly, Prince Harpirias accepts-with considerable misgivings-a final chance to redeem his past disgrace by accepting a mission to rescue a group of hostages from the hostile barbarians who inhabit the icy mountains at Majipoor's end.
		I consider "Mountains of Majipoor" a loosening exercise by the author, preparing himself for the bigger task of giving his readers once again a full novel placed in Majipoor.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553573276?v=glance (1319 words)

	Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle)
		Valentine, a gentle man with no memory, who takes up juggling, is actually Lord Valentine whom the Shapeshifters- the despised original natives of Majipoor - have misplaced within a different body, while inhabiting his real body in order to rule their world again.
		Lord Valentine's Castle is the first in a series of books set on the planet Majipoor, a vast, metals-poor world, settled by humanity thousands of years ago, and now home to several other sentient species as well.
		He shows us the marvels of Majipoor, but he doesn't explain the details of how it's done, except to say in passing that someone "has a device" that accomplishes this.
	thegreatlands.com /store/0061054879.php (1569 words)

	Author Robert Silverberg interviewed.
		An immense planet, not very technologically advanced but inordinately beautiful and ecologically complex, is populated by the descendants of colonists from Earth and half a dozen other intelligent races, one of them native to Majipoor.
		Valentine and Prestimion, my two heroes, are both men in the 35-40 year age range, and I don't know who the really good actors of that age are these days.
		The grand old man of SF on his lust for spicy food, the genius of Majipoor, and living with Harlan Ellison.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/02_july/news0702_2.shtml (1777 words)

	Sorcerers of Majipoor--Robert Silverberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There, Prestimion considers his options and assesses his support, and ultimately decides to wage war on Korsibar--not just to take back the place that is rightfully his, but in fairness to Majipoor, which deserves a better ruler.
		Sorcerers is set during a period of transition, when magic and the occult, till now confined to the lower classes, is taking a more and more central place in Majipoori culture.
		The characters are carefully nuanced (with the possible exception of Thismet, whose moral flipflops don't entirely add up), believable not just as heroic players on a large stage but as human beings.
	www.sff.net /people/VictoriaStrauss/ReviewSorcerers.html (805 words)

	Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor #1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The national bestselling saga from the stunning imagination of Robert Silverberg continues in the first new hardcover Majipoor novel in nearly a decade.
		Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.
		Sorcerers of Majipoor (Majipoor #5), by Robert Silverberg
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0061054879 (421 words)

	Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg (Paperback)
		The national bestselling saga of Robert Silverberg's stunning imagination continues in the first new hardcover Majipoor novel in nearly a decade.
		As a prequel to Silverberg's earlier Majipoor novels.
		His rival fights to take his appointed place as keeper of his beloved Majipoor...and to resbackse order to the utter chaos that has befallen their world.
	www.clarkesworld.com /books/book_0061054852.html (153 words)

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		The Mountains of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg: a shorter novel set in the future of Majipoor, this book explains Majipoor by taking the reader out of it almost entirely and contrasting the reality of "modern" Majipoor to an isolated people's way of life.
		We have the bored princeling who has managed to make a big enough mistake that his career is essentially over unless he undertakes a dangerous quest.
		There wasn't a lot distinctly Majipoor about it, which is a mild disappointment.
	realtegan.blogspot.com /2004/04/rapid-reviews-couple-of-good-books.html (513 words)

	Majipoor Chronicles : Majipoor Chronicles (Majipoor Cycle)
		Sorcerers of Majipoor provides a deep, dark vision for the background of the conflict inLord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex.
		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 he 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.
	thegreatlands.com /store/0061054852.php (1662 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Mountains of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg
		A group of paleontologists are held captive by a primitive tribe, and the prince must negotiate for their freedom.
		Hardly anywhere on the whole vast world of Majipoor was it possible to encounter temperatures low enough actually to freeze water.
		Here alone in all of Majipoor did true winter reign: behind the awesome mountains known as the Nine Sisters that cut an entire peninsula off from the rest of the world and doomed it to a stern frigid climate of its own.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/Ebook300.htm (2004 words)

	Bibliography: The Mountains of Majipoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Mountains of Majipoor (1995, SFBC, #06859, $7.98, 132pp, hc)
		The Mountains of Majipoor (1995, Bantam Spectra, 0553096141, $19.95, 225pp, hc)
		The Mountains of Majipoor (1996, Bantam Spectra, 0553573276, $5.99, 225pp, pb)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/title.cgi?11857 (85 words)

	Powell's Books - Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Their plot is to seize the power of the Coronal from Prestimion, the designated successor, capture the crown, and rule Majipoor.
		But as he dons the mantle of power, he begins to realize that the traditions are not easily ignored — and the burdens of crown and scepter are more costly then the simple act of possessing them.
		The prequel to his previous Majipoor novels, Lord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex, this fantasy adventure is the first in an exciting new trilogy of Majipoor novels that is sure to be a hit with his many fans.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=63-006105254x-0 (231 words)

	NEWSARAMA - DABEL BROTHERS ANNOUNCE MAJIPOOR ACQUISITION
		One of the best-known of these authors is Robert Silverberg, a multi-Hugo and Nebula award-winning author who has penned hundreds of short stories, novels and collaborations in his 50-year professional writing career.
		”I’ve always relished the adventurous feeling of the Majipoor stories because the writing, with its expert style and language, works hard to place the reader in an alien world where violence and warfare are almost nonexistent.
		I actually had read The Song of Ice and Fire books before the comic came out (although only a month or so before), and it wasn't until Ernst stopped by some message boards that I put two and two together and realized Hedge Knight was the prequel to it.
	newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6550 (1049 words)

	Lord Prestimion by Robert Silverberg
		When sudden outbreaks of violence and inexplicable disturbances rack the land and a new enemy arises to threaten the peace, Prestimion must face the consequences of his act of compassion.
		This sequel to Sorcerers of Majipoor revisits the author's richly diverse world of sorcery and science to tell the story of a man catapulted by destiny into the position of lord of his world.
		Silverberg gives over much space to travelogues on Majipoor, a vividly described setting that is as captivating as any of the people who inhabit it, but he fails to spend the same amount of care developing Prestimion's character.
	www.used-and-new-books.com /sub_robert-silverberg/Lord-Prestimion (917 words)

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