Thesme and the Ghayrog

Form: Novelette

Year: 1982

Publication history:

• ???? : Crónicas de Majipur (pb) , Ultramar (Spain) (in Spanish)
• 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
• 1982 : Majipoor Chronicles (tpb) , Priam, 314 pp., 359-7
• 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)

Chapter 1 of Majipoor Chronicles. I don't know of any other publication.

Long before the time of Lord Valentine on Majipoor, when the non-human races are just starting to arrive and Narabal is just a scrappy frontier town, there lives a woman named Thesme. She reaches a crisis in her life after a series of unhappy love affairs and the realization that life in Narabal is not likely to get better for her. So she packs a few things and heads into the forest to be by herself. She learns to survive and comes to enjoy the solitude. Then one day she comes upon a Ghayrog, one of the alien colonists, injured near her hut. She takes him in and nurses him back to health, discovering in the process that maybe she's had enough solitude. She also finds many of her cherished beliefs about her life and her self falling apart.