Category Archives: Sailing to Sarantium
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
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
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
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