'Majipoor Chronicles' is a refreshing change after the weightier 'Lord Valentine's Castle. More like a collection of short stories. Silverberg used Hissune's jaunts into 'The Register of Souls' as a frame for stories about people of the past; relative unknowns and great figures. But also a means to show the diversity of the Majipoor itself.
The people represented give us a good idea of Majipoor's collective psyche. Diverse the characters might be, but they come together to show us Majipoor as a complicated, compelling whole.
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