guy gavriel kay

Guy Gavriel Kay born Weyburn, Saskatchewan: 7 November 1954 Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction (primarily historical fantasy), a script writer, essayist and poet. During the 1970s he worked in Oxford as an assistant to Christopher Tolkien in editing J R R Tolkien's The...

All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay

Ah, Mr Kay. What a wonderful writer you are. But are you fantasy? I have these conversations from time to time with friends. The answer’s yes, but the paucity of supernatural elements in some of his books stretch the definition a little. And maybe if he hadn’t broken in as a fantasy author...

Do you like any of the characters in Tigana? If so, why? I'm about half-way through and I'm struggling with the book. There are some really good moments--both assassination attempts stand out--but I'm having a hard time getting through the massive internal monologues--almost an entire chapter...

Shortly before reading A Brightness Long Ago, I was wondering whether something like Line of Duty could work as a book. Whether if, once removed from the soundtrack of awkward pauses, slight tonal inflections and shifting facial expressions, a story built on the slowest and most thorough...

A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry series optioned for television | CBC Books Hope they do it justice.

I'm currently about two thirds of the way through Tigana and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I honestly wasn't sure after the first few chapters but once I got around 25% into the story the pace picked up, my understanding of the characters deepened and my enjoyment increased tenfold. Some of the...

Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy Gavriel Kay Eos, Jul 2005, $14.95 ISBN: 0060733497 History has condemned Ammar to the role of monstrous butcher as he betrayed an inept monarch by killing him and brought to the Al-Rassan throne a stronger but abusively insane king. Though hated by everyone even the...

Ysabel Guy Gavriel Kay Roc, Feb 2007, $24.95 ISBN 0451461290 Renowned Canadian photographer Edward Marriner takes his teenage son Ned with him as he shoots the medieval constructed Saint-Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence. Though enjoying their Southern France locale, the male Marinners worry...

Under Heaven Guy Gavriel Kay Roc, Apr 27 2010, $26.95 ISBN: 9780451463302 Second son Shen Tai has spent the last two years as the only living person amidst the forty thousand dead, burying the bones of the dead from both sides. He does this to honor his late father, Kitai Empire Left Side...

Good book, interesting and rather accurate novel about Song dynasty China. A little slow at first but he has a lot to set up and it moves right along once it gets going. My main complaint is something I've seen before about his Byzantine based novels. If he's going to stick so close to what...

I'm looking for some historical-based fantasy, and Guy Gavriel Kay has come back up on my radar again. While the Sarantine duology was reasonably enjoyable for the storytelling, I could never forgive him as a reader for simply using Byzantine history and then putting his name on it instead...

River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay

Quick question, having never read any Guy Gavriel Kay before now, which book would you recommend I read first?

I'm reading Kay's The Last Light of the Sun and it's as amazing as a Kay book ought to be. I'm in part 3 right now and was wondering if anyone knows what the monster in the woods might have been. The only descriptions of it were: it smelled of rotting flesh, was big enough to knock over trees...

So I've just started reading "Sailing to Sarantium", and already I'm mentally replacing the names he uses for the historical counter-part (ie, Rome for Rhodias). Without wanting any spoilers, is there any reason why he's simply changing the names and calling it "fantasy", when he could have...

I decided to buy Tigana for my kindle upon reading the sample and was really interested in the style. The story looked interesting too but could not comment on that at the moment. I just want to know what type of fantasy does Mr Kay write? I s he like David Gemmell with lots of action, or...

Kitai, during the Ninth Dynasty. The Emperor has given the nation many years of peace and prosperity. Far to the west, in a valley where the last great battle between Kitai and Tagur was fought, a dutiful son pays homage to his dead father by burying the bones of the fallen. His honourable task...