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Sailing To Sarantium (The Sarantium Mosaic)
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Guy Gavriel Kay's fantasy career began with "The Fionavar Tapestry", a popular trilogy mixing Arthurian and Tolkienian themes. He's since developed an original vein of alternative-historical fiction: richly suspenseful stories whose period settings have different country names and added magic. The Lions of Al-Rassan reinvented medieval Spain; Sailing to Sarantium lovingly reflects the intrigue and splendour of the Byzantine Empire and echoes W.B. Yeats's famous Byzantium poems. Magic exists: at least one old god is horribly real, and those artificial singing birds celebrated by Yeats take their life from an unexpected creepy source. Sarantium City is intensely imagined, with dynastic upheavals, riot and rebellion, a smashing chariot race, and knives glinting in every alley. There's sharp intelligence here, too. The hero, an outlander mosaic expert summoned to decorate Sarantium's newest and greatest dome, faces his worst test at the Emperor's court--where mechanical trickery lurks, conversation is double-edged and exile awaits the loser in a debate on mosaic techniques. There's also a Sherlockian challenge to deduce how the top charioteer pulled off a magical- seeming coup. Kay has laid fine groundwork for this new series "The Sarantine Mosaic", with more to follow. --David Langford
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'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
‘LORD OF EMPERORS is wonderful. I never expect less from Guy Gavriel Kay.’ -- ROBERT JORDAN
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- PublisherEarthlight
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0743450094
- ISBN 13 9780743450096
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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