Majipoor series by Robert Silverberg

The Majipoor series is a collection of speculative fiction novels by Robert Silverberg, set on the planet Majipoor.

reviews in the series

Valentine Pontifex

by Robert Silverberg

Valentine Pontifex is the third volume in the Marjipoor series by Robert Silverberg.

I’m afraid that there’s no nice way of saying this so I’ll just get over with it: This is probably the most boring book Silverberg has ever written. Valentine Pontifex is divided into five parts and I can easily summarise everything of importance that happens in the first three parts in five lines: Valentine worries about the state of Majipoor. The Shapeshifters are brewing on some kind of plan...

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reviewed on Friday 01 February 2002

Majipoor Chronicles

by Robert Silverberg

Majipoor Chronicles is the second volume in the Marjipoor series by Robert Silverberg.

Took me a bit of time to verify that this is the second book in the Majipoor series. It seems that the reason why this isn't widely discussed is that it doesn't really matter when you read this one. The story takes place after Lord Valentines Castle, so that's the natural place to read it, except almost everything in it is taking place long before Valentine was a twinkle in his fathers eye. S...

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reviewed on Saturday 01 December 2001

Lord Valentines Castle

by Robert Silverberg

Lord Valentines Castle is the first volume in the Marjipoor series by Robert Silverberg.

The hardest thing about reviewing this book is to label it correctly. We are on a humanly colonised planet at least ten thousand years in the future. We share this world, of gigantic proportions, with several alien races including the original inhabitants. Some of these aliens act more or less as wizards and dreamreading plays a big part in both everyday and political life on Majipoor. But ...

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reviewed on Monday 01 October 2001