Category Archives: Emperors Reviews
Review by Joe Milicia, for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
Reprinted with kind permission. “Vollendet das ewige Werk!”-“Completed, the eternal work!”-cries Wotan at first sight of the newly built Valhalla in Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Ideally, that is what the fan of Guy Gavriel Kay should be crying, upon closing the … Continue reading
Review by Victoria Hoyle of Eve’s Alexandria
Lord of Emperors Review by Victoria Hoyle of Eve’s Alexandria Let me begin candidly: Lord of Emperors only confirms the burgeoning suspicion I had at the end of Sailing to Sarantium. The Sarantine Mosaic is, for me, one of *the* … Continue reading
Mosaics and charioteers: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosaic
Review by Jo Walton. This review originally appeared here at tor.com, along with reader comments, and is reproduced with permission. Your experience of reading Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosaic Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors is likely to be … Continue reading
Review by Kate Nepveu
Copyright July 31, 2000. Originally posted to rec.arts.sf.written. More of Kate’s reviews can be found at http://www.steelypips.org/elsewhere.html “There were those in the Hippodrome that day for whom the racing held more importance than mighty events of war and succession and … Continue reading
Pieces of History
Review by Cheryl Morgan for her online magazine, Emerald City. It is a lost art, mosaic making. Few craftsmen these days can make a picture from a myriad coloured stones, let alone master the higher art of doing so in … Continue reading