Majipoor series
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The Majipoor series is a series of novels and stories by Robert Silverberg, set on the planet Majipoor. The setting is a mixture of elements of science fiction and fantasy. The works in the series are as follows, in internal chronological order, with first publication dates in parentheses:
- The Book of Changes (novelette, 2003)
- Sorcerers of Majipoor (1997)
- Lord Prestimion (1999)
- King of Dreams (2000)
- Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
- Majipoor Chronicles (short stories, 1982)
- Valentine Pontifex (1983)
- The Seventh Shrine (novella, 1998)
- The Mountains of Majipoor (1995)
Majipoor is a planet much larger than the Earth. It has been settled by humans, Ghayrogs, Skandars, Vroons, Liimen, Hjorts and other alien races for many thousands of years. These races live in an unstable truce with the shape-changing aboriginal inhabitants of the planet, the Piurivar. The planet is ruled by an unusual tetrarchy: the Coronal rules in a highly visible and symbolic manner from his palace atop Castle Mount; the previous Coronal retires to become the Pontifex, the head of the bureaucracy in an underground Labyrinth; the Coronal's mother becomes the Lady of the Isle of Sleep, promoting the morals of Majipoor by sending dreams to its inhabitants; while the mysterious King of Dreams on the distant continent of Suvrael punishes wrongdoers by visiting them with nightmares. The post of King of Dreams is created at the end of King of Dreams, while Valentine Pontifex ends with the creation of a fifth Power, representing the Piurivar.
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- Majipoor Chronicles, Robert Silverberg, 1982, Victor Gollancz (later PAN ISBN 0-330-28117-8)
