Lord of Emperors: Book of the Sarantine Mosaic - Softcover

Kay, Guy Gavriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684866579 ISBN 13: 9780684866574

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia, 2000

Synopsis

529 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Conclusion Sequence Began With Sailing To Sarantium Finds A Huge Cast Of Characters From All Walks Of Life Caught Up In The Rumours Of War And Perilous Intrigue As All The Threads Of The Tale Come Spectacularly Together In A Time Shaped By Violent Upheaval

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Review

Guy Gavriel Kay's tales of kingdoms and empires that never quite were blend real history with an economic use of magic; blink and you would almost miss the interventions of the supernatural. Lord of Emperorsis the second half of his The Sarantium Mosaic, a full-blooded and passionate epic of Byzantine intrigue and artistic commitment. All of his characters are in the great city of Sarantium now--Crispin, the great mosaicist, Gisel, the exiled queen of the barbarian kingdom of the West and Rustem, the brilliant young doctor and unwilling spy. Emperor Valerius and his wife Alixena have plans for their world--they are summoning troops from all directions--and plans for their city. Crispin is working on the dome of the great temple; and yet time and chance, those rulers that lie beyond all emperors, will ultimately dispose of all plans and all planners. Kay is as good on the manners of charioteers--there is a particularly fine chariot race here--as he is on the double-crossings of generals and imperial secretaries. This is a rich complex fantasy with a real sense of how its world works. --Roz Kaveney

Review

'This is Kay at his very very best!' -- BSFA VECTOR

LORD OF EMPERORS is wonderful. I never expect less from Guy Gavriel Kay. -- ROBERT JORDAN

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684866579
• ISBN 13: 9780684866574
• Binding: Paperback