Majipoor: The Sources

Readers new to Majipoor often ask what order is best to read the books. Silverberg recommends reading them in the order they were written. I agree, and not just because that's the order I read them in. It makes sense to introduce yourself to a new world the same way it was invented, and there's nothing plot-wise that is lost by starting later in the planet's history.

In order of writing

Internal chronological order

By Silverberg

By Matt Costello

Revolt on Majipoor (1987)

* - Note that Majipoor Chronicles consists of a number of stories set in differing time periods ranging from before The Book of Changes to just before Lord Valentine's Castle, all tied together by a framing narrative set between Lord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex.

Breaking out the individual stories in Majipoor Chronicles, we get something like the following. The abbreviations will be used in citations for entries on other pages.

Thesme and the Ghayrog tatg
The Time of the Burning totb
The Book of Changes boc
In the Fifth Year of the Voyage itfyotv
Calintane Explains ce
Sorcerers of Majipoor som
The Desert of Stolen Dreams dosd
Lord Prestimion lp
King of Dreams kod
The Sorcerer's Apprentice sa
The Soul Painter and the Shapeshifter spats
Crime and Punishment cap
Among the Dream Speakers atds
A Thief in Ni-moya atin
Voriax and Valentine vav
Lord Valentine's Castle lvc
Majipoor Chronicles mc
Valentine Pontifex vp
The Seventh Shrine ss
Revolt on Majipoor rom
The Mountains of Majipoor mom

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