Category Archives: Sailing to Sarantium
When Gods are Absent from Fantasy: Religion and Spiritual Experience in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic, by Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
When Gods are Absent from Fantasy: Religion and Spiritual Experience in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic. Published at www.academia.edu Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, Bialystok University, Department of Philology, Faculty Member. Guy Gavriel Kay, a Canadian author … Continue reading
Sailing to Sarantium (Macedonian)
Pub: Ikona
Sailing to Sarantium (French paperback)
Artist: Gilles Cornu Pub: J’ai Lu
Cover Art of Sailing to Sarantium (Canadian paperback)
Artist: Cathy MacLean Pub: Penguin
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (Croatian edition)
Artist: Igor Kordev Publisher: Algoritam
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (Canadian Hardcover)
Artist: Cathy MacLean. Pub: Penguin Canada.
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
Review by Allie Sawyer for the ezine Dark Moon Rising.
Sailing to Sarantium Allie’s column of reviews is called ‘From the Observatory’ and she uses a rating system with scoring out of 5 moons. Unlike such prolific authors as Piers Anthony, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Raymond Feist, Guy Gavriel Kay … Continue reading
Review by Doug Barbour, for The Edmonton Journal
Sailing to Sarantium For some time now, Canada’s Guy Gavriel Kay has been recognized as one of the finest writers of high fantasy in the world. He first achieved fame with one of the finest post-Tolkien fantasy trilogies, The Fionavar … Continue reading
Review by Dena Taylor – Sailing to Sarantium
This review is part of an upcoming book on GGK being published by NIMROD PRESS (New Lambton, NSW, Australia) in the BABEL HANDBOOKS series. In Sailing to Sarantium, Volume One of The Sarantine Mosaic, Kay moves east in his secondary … Continue reading
On Sailing to Sarantium, by Dena Taylor
by Dena Taylor This was first published as a review in TransVersions 10, Toronto: Orchid Press, 1999 In Sailing to Sarantium, Volume One of The Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay moves east in his secondary world and three hundred years … Continue reading
From Tapestry to Mosaic: The Fantasy Novels of Guy Gavriel Kay
A dialogue between Christopher Cobb and Mary Anne Mohanraj This article appears courtesy of Mary Anne Mohanraj and Christopher Cobb, and first appeared in Strange Horizons ezine. ___________________________________________________ Guy Gavriel Kay, one of the major fantasy authors of our time, … Continue reading
The Creative Construction of History in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Sarantine Mosaic
by Jillian Hatch, 2005 As Holly E. Ordway recognizes in her essay, “The World-Building of Guy Gavriel Kay,” “Kay’s work is notable in that he makes extensive use of sources from […] the ‘primary world,’” such as “literature, mythology, and … Continue reading
GGK’s Later Novels: The History behind the Books
This summation appears courtesy of Mary Anne Mohanraj and Christopher Cobb, and first appeared in Strange Horizons ezine. Each of Kay’s later novels is patterned after a different southern European culture and its history. The story in Tigana is modeled … Continue reading
Reading Passages from Sailing to Sarantium (Book 1 of The Sarantine Mosaic)
Filmed reading of a passage read by GGK Click here to view. Passage from Chapter One of Sailing to Sarantium He came to, slowly, and gradually became aware of painful, flickering light and the scent of perfume. Not lavender. His … Continue reading
Map of Sarantium
Artist: Martin Springett
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (New U.S.A.)
Artist: Larry Rostant Design: Ray Lundgren Pub: Penguin
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (U.S.A. edition)
Artist: Keith Birdsong. Pub: HarperPrism
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (UK hardback)
Artist: Geoff Taylor. Pub: Earthlight.
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (Spanish hardback)
Artist: Cathy MacLean (adapted) Pub: Plaza & Janés
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (Polish edition)
Artist: Based on Cathy McLean’s Canadian covers, these designs are by an artist as yet unknown Pub: Zysk i S-ka.
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (German edition)
The title ‘Das Komplott‘ means ‘The Conspiracy‘. Artist: Donato Giancola Pub: Heyne Verlag
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium, book 2 (German edition)
Artist: Donato Giancola Pub: Heyne Verlag
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (French paperback)
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (Croatian hardback)
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (New Canadian)
Cover Design: Lisa Jager Publisher: Penguin
Cover of Sailing to Sarantium (Canadian paperback)
French Canadian edition of Sailing to Sarantium
Artist: Jacques Lamontagne Pub: Alire