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
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
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
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
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