It is referenced that Majipoor receives the occasional starship , but is generally considered a backwater planet. Metals of all sorts are scarce, since the planet has a very light crust. Technology is both pervasive and rare at the same time.
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For example, draft animals are used for farming and transport, but the animals used called "mounts" were genetically created in the distant past. Many great engineering works are referenced, but these were created in the past also. Many modern technologies, such as TV and radio , seem to be nonexistent or of very limited use.
The average Majipooran lives a peasant lifestyle, and agriculture is a common occupation. Ancient laws dictate that no race may exclusively occupy a given district, so most races can be found in some numbers virtually anywhere. On the village level, there are monocultures, however. Some areas also have a handful of other intelligent beings visiting from off-world. Their numbers are small enough as to be irrelevant.
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There are also indigenous sea dragons, discovered to be highly intelligent. The characters of any given book often travel vast distances across the face of Majipoor. The planet itself has three main continents, a major island, several smaller islands of note, and one hemisphere which is the Great Sea entirely water. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg. A thousand years before Lord Valentine, the Majipoor Cycle explores another grand epic in a world conceived on a truly epic scale. On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change.
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It is no secret that the next Coronal will be Prince Prestimion. By law and custom, the blood son of the present Coronal, Korsibar, an avid hunter'cannot rule. But Korsibar has a secret quarry'the Starburst Crown.
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Visited by an oracle, Korsibar has heard a prophecy that will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration and alter destiny itself: With a brand new cast of characters and engaging conflicts of heart and soul, Silverberg'one of the world's finest stylists and storytellers'breathes fresh life and quality into sci-fi's sister genre.
Readers, both old and new, will want to accompany him in exploring this treasure trove of imagination. Mass Market , pages. Published August by HarperPrism first published Lord Prestimion 1 , Majipoor 5. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Sorcerers of Majipoor , please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about Sorcerers of Majipoor. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Oct 25, Sarah Sammis rated it it was ok Shelves: Sorcerers of Majipoor takes place one thousand years before the start of Lord Valentine's Castle. The traditional passage from Coronal to Pontifax and the choosing of a new Coronal will be challenged when the blood heir of the soon to be Pontifax desires the throne. Though there is no written law against a blood succession it just isn't done. Majipoor is still an interesting, diverse and complex world.
Silverberg has thought about how the country works from the ground up. For my inner political junkie I love to see the scheming and backstabbing. The world is well realized from architecture, geography, entertainment, different cultures, arts and so forth. The plot progression in Sorcerers of Majipoor goes on a geologic scale.
I can't complain that the book is "too long" because it's not much longer than any of Silverberg's other books which I have enjoyed. The problem here is the minutiae.
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Before anything can happen the current Pontifax has to die except he doesn't, not for first two hundred pages. That's amazing for a man apparently at death's door. It doesn't get any better once he does die because there is the long journey back to Castlemount. In other words, the very thing I normally adore about Silverberg's writing gets in the way: The novel is so hung up on the details that there's very little room for the characters to maneuver. Even they seem restless and bored!
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There are two more novels in the Lord Prestimion who I keep wanting to call Lord Persimmon series that I am deciding to skip. I did not enjoy this one as much as the others I have read in this series. For me this was a pretty basic storyline that was drawn out for way to long. Lot's and lots of weird character and place names, that were minor to the plot and became pretty confusing in places. An index of names would have helped a lot I think. There were some very nice maps in the front of the book, however, most of these were not relevant to the story.
Only a few places mentioned in the book were actually on the maps. Things did not really get going until the later third or quarter of the book, and even then it was a bit predictable. A couple of little surprises at the very end though. Apr 05, Ben Lund rated it liked it. Not bad, if you can get by the fact that nothing important happens in the first pages. On page I said out loud "Finally we are doing something. The whole book struck me as kinda 'meh', it's predictable, Prestimion is way too nice, Korsibar is way too stupid, and most of the Not bad, if you can get by the fact that nothing important happens in the first pages.
The whole book struck me as kinda 'meh', it's predictable, Prestimion is way too nice, Korsibar is way too stupid, and most of the secondary characters are forgettable. If a person isn't important, I don't think we need their geneology back seven generations.
Case in point, early on in the book he spends 16 PAGES, mentioning different cities and rituals, these don't have anything to do with the story, and 1, only 1 of the cities is mentioned at another part of the book. Despite these gripes, there is a certain warmth that comes from returning to an old, favourite author.
I did enjoy the book, after the first pages , and was happy to read it to it's conclusion. I don't know if I have it in me to read the other 2 books in the series. I'll need a couple books to wash the taste out of my mouth first. Aug 31, Chris rated it really liked it.
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