Description: Of all the many worlds created by Robert Silverberg throughout his long career, none is more famous than Majipoor. It is no accident that he has revisited the planet more than any other, for it is a big world full of rich variety. The name he chose for this world, Majipoor, has an exotic quality reminiscent of India, and that land can be seen as a sort of model for the planet, with a large population of diverse ethnicity and religions, strange (to Westerners) animals and plants, and grand aging monuments. Like an outsider visiting India, no matter how many times you go back, you feel there is more left unexplored. Reading Silverberg's Majipoor stories today must be something like reading Marco Polo was to Europeans centuries ago.