Category Archives: Sarantium Reviews
Review by Victoria Hoyle
of Eve’s Alexandria Sailing to Sarantium I have a set of bright memories associated with various of Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels: Sitting, aged 13, grief-stricken and sobbing in a cold bath having finished “The Darkest Road”, the final weft in … Continue reading
Review by Thomas Wagner
on his website SF Reviews.Net For SAILING TO SARANTIUM Reprinted with kind permission. In truest Kay fashion, the 40-page prologue to Sailing to Sarantium—this modern master’s first foray into series fiction since The Fionavar Tapestry over a decade earlier—could stand … Continue reading
Review by Joe Milicia for the New York Review of Science Fiction
Reprinted with kind permission. It must be a special satisfaction for historians writing about Late Antiquity to be able to use the phrase “Byzantine intrigue” and mean it quite literally. A reviewer of Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sailing to Sarantiumat least … Continue reading
Art for Fantasy’s Sake
Sailing to Sarantium Reviewed by Bill Sheehan for Barnes & Noble Guy Gavriel Kay’s career in fantasy began with his editorial contributions to J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous epic, The Silmarillion. Since then, he has established himself as a remarkable and original … Continue reading
Review by Kate Nepveu.
Copyright May 12, 1999. Originally posted to rec.arts.sf.written. More of Kate’s reviews can be found at http://www.steelypips.org/elsewhere.html “To say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: … Continue reading