"The Soul-Painter and the Shapeshifter"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1981
ID: 1088
Publication history:
- 1981: Omni November 1981, Magazine
- 1982: Majipoor Chronicles, Arbor House Hard cover book, 314 pp.
- 1982: Majipoor Chronicles, Priam Trade paperback, 314 pp.
- 1982: Majipoor Chronicles, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 277 pp.
- 1982: Majipoor Chronicles, Gollancz Hard cover book, 314 pp.
- 1983: Best of Omni Science Fiction 5, Omni Mass market paperback
- 1983: Chroniques de Majipoor, Laffont Hard cover book, ISBN 2221009797, 331 pp., in French
- 1983: Crnicas de Majipur, Acervo Hard cover book, ISBN 8470023616, in Spanish
- 1983: Majipoor Chronicles, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-22928-1, 281 pp.
- 1983: Majipoor Chronicles, Pan Mass market paperback, 317 pp.
- 1984: Majipoor Chronicles, Bantam Mass market paperback, 281 pp.
- 1988: Majipoor Chronicles, Pan Mass market paperback, ISBN 0330281178, 317 pp.
- 1989: Majipoor Chronicles, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0553255304, 281 pp.
- 1992: Majipoor Chronicles, Pan Mass market paperback, 317 pp.
- 1995: Crnicas de Majipur, Ultramar Mass market paperback, ISBN 847386493X, in Spanish
- 1995: El Laberinto de Majipur, Ultramar Mass market paperback, ISBN 8473864883, in Spanish
- 1995: Majipoor Chronicles, Pan Mass market paperback, ISBN 0330281178
- 1995: Das Seelenregister, Lbbe Mass market paperback, ISBN 3404241991, 476 pp., in German
- 1996: Majipoor Chronicles, Harper & Row Mass market paperback, ISBN 0061054852, 400 pp.
- 1998: Het Labyrint van Majipoor, Luitingh-Sijthoff Trade paperback, ISBN 90-245-1428-2, 560 pp., in Dutch
- 1999: Valentine of Majipoor, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 806 pp.
- 1999: Majipoor Chronicles, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 277 pp.
- 2000: Majipoor Chronicles, Voyager Mass market paperback, ISBN 0006483798, 400 pp.
- 2000: Majipoor Chronicles, Fictionwise Online
- 2001: Хроники Маджипура, Eksmo Эксмо Hard cover book, 528 pp., in Russian
- 2002: Chroniques de Majipoor, LGF Mass market paperback, ISBN 2253041203, 445 pp., in French
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
This story is Chapter 6 of Majipoor Chronicles.
Therion Nismile is a soul-painter during the time of Lord Thraym, a long time before Lord Valentine. This is a high-tech art form in which the artist imprints an image directly from his mind (or soul) onto a canvas made sensitive to him. Therion is the greatest soul-painter of his day, but he becomes dissatisfied with the perfection that surrounds him on Castle Mount and leaves civilization to build himself a hut in the forest of Zimroel. There he meets a woman named Sarise, who also lives in the forest. But he is plagued by doubts—is she really a Shapeshifter masquerading as a woman?