In the Fifth Year of the Voyage

Form: Novelette

Year: 1981

Publication history:

• ???? : Crónicas de Majipur (pb) , Ultramar (Spain) (in Spanish)
• 1981 : Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1981 (m) , , 162 pp.
• 1982 : Majipoor Chronicles (tpb) , Priam, 314 pp., 359-7
• 1982 : Majipoor Chronicles (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 277 pp., 6475
• 1982 : Majipoor Chronicles (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 314 pp., 03153-0
• 1982 : Chroniques de Majipoor (hc) , Laffont (France), 331 pp., ISBN 2221009797 (in French)
• 1982 : Majipoor Chronicles (hc) , Arbor House, 314 pp., 358-9
• 1983 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Pan, 317 pp., 281178
• 1983 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Bantam, 281 pp., ISBN 0-553-22928-1
• 1983 : Crónicas de Majipur (hc) , Acervo (Spain), ISBN 8470023616 (in Spanish)
• 1984 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Bantam, 281 pp.
• 1988 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Pan, 317 pp.
• 1989 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Bantam, 281 pp., 14428-6
• 1992 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Pan, 317 pp.
• 1995 : El Laberinto de Majipur (pb) , Ultramar (Spain), ISBN 8473864883 (in Spanish)
• 1995 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Pan, ISBN 0330281178
• 1995 : Das Seelenregister (pb) , Lübbe (Germany), 476 pp., ISBN 3404241991 (in German)
• 1996 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Harper & Row, 400 pp., ISBN 0061054852
• 1998 : Het Labyrint van Majipoor (tpb) , Luitingh-Sijthoff (Netherlands), 560 pp., ISBN 90-245-1428-2 (in Dutch)
• 1999 : Majipoor Chronicles (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 277 pp.
• 1999 : Valentine of Majipoor (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 806 pp., 02048
• 2000 : Majipoor Chronicles (pb) , Voyager (UK), 400 pp., ISBN 0006483798
• 2000 : Majipoor Chronicles (ol) , Fictionwise
• 2002 : Chroniques de Majipoor (pb) , LGF (France), 445 pp., ISBN 2253041203 (in French)

This story became Chapter 3 of Majipoor Chronicles.

Majipoor is a really big planet, and its three continents are crowded into one hemisphere, leaving the other hemisphere to the Great Sea. No one has ever crossed it. But it is a time of great exploration (long before Valentine's era), and Captain Sinnabor Lavon decides he will be the one to do the impossible and circumnavigate Majipoor. All goes well until the fifth year out, when they encounter a mass of strange writhing seaweed which challenges their resolve.