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	Guy Gavriel Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction.
		As a student at the University of Manitoba, Kay came into contact with Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.
		Kay became Principal Writer and Associate Producer for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series, The Scales of Justice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Gavriel_Kay (318 words)

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		The Lions Of Al-rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay (2005)
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	Guy Gavriel Kay
		Kay is also known for his role in co-editing the notes and unfinished manuscripts that yielded The Silmarillion, J.
		Guy Gavriel Kay was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan in 1954.
		Kay still writes occasionally for television or radio, but most of his professional time is taken up with the research and writing of his novels, including traveling to and working from the exotic settings in which they transpire.
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	Kay, Guy Gavriel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kay, Guy Gavriel, novelist (b at Weyburn, Sask 7 Nov 1954).
		The author of 6 fantasy novels, he was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto, where he received his law degree.
		Kay creates other alternative worlds in Tigana (1990) and A Song for Arbonne (1992), which dramatize complex political and emotional struggles.
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	More about Guy Gavriel Kay's novels
		Kay works closely with his historical sources, but he sometimes makes crucial changes in the course of events.
		Kay's first books, The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, posit a universe in which many different worlds, including our own, are all patterned on the first world, Fionavar.
		The Empire survived the Arabian invasion of the early 8th century (its neighbor empire and long-time rival, the Sassanid Empire of Persia, did not), but it was permanently weakened by the Islamic conquest of all of the Empire's lands in northern Africa and the Middle East.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2000/20001113/kayhistory.html (1122 words)

	Locus Online: Guy Gavriel Kay interview (excerpts)
		Guy Gavriel Kay, born November 7, 1954 in Canada, received a B.A. in philosophy in 1975, then trained to be a lawyer, receiving an LL..B. in 1978.
		Kay’s latest work, duology "The Sarantine Mosaic" - Sailing to Sarantium (1998) and Lord of Emperors (2000) - reaches even deeper into alternate history to invoke his version of Byzantium under the rule of Justinian and Theodora, its magics influenced by the writings of Yeats.
		In pop culture terms, we need to be guided or alerted, given a signpost that fantasy or science fiction can be more than just something to read before you go to bed at night, on the beach on a holiday, or on the subway.
	www.locusmag.com /2000/Issues/05/Kay.html (867 words)

	Colin Glassey on Guy Gavriel Kay
		Kay's two best novels were writen in the early 90's, after he had finished his homage to Tolkien in the form of his Finovir trilogy.
		Kay had used the real names (Madrid, Valencia, Cordoba, France, Spain, Morocco, Grenada, Christian, Moslem, Jewish, etc.) then his readers would have learned quite a bit about the very interesting history of Spain during the Medeival era and the interesting place that it was once.
		Kay uses made up names, he lost his chance to educate his readers and gained (I think) little in the way of freedom to write his story.
	www.teleologic.com /crghome/guy_kay.html (1503 words)

	Article: The Fantasy Novels of Guy Gavriel Kay, by Christopher Cobb and Mary Anne Mohanraj
		Kay's eight novels ask to be understood in relation to one another, as parts of a much larger imaginative project.
		For Kay, the troubadors and the idea of courtly love are the parts of the culture of Languedoc that matter, that he builds on.
		Kay can almost get away with that because he gives us Aelis' story before we know anything about the world, either, but once we do learn, her behavior seems hard to credit.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2000/20001113/kay.shtml (7254 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lions of al-Rassan: Books: Guy Gavriel Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kay is masterful depicting scenes that lead the reader to jump to conclusions that are, astonishingly, proved wrong a couple of pages later, this keep you reading on tiptoes, expecting new surprises...
		Kay has a very select and unique skill of making his characters so real and indelible in one's psyche that their humanity in all its gore and glory deeply resonantes within the mind and heart, so much so that one may find that they cannot soon forget them.
		Kay has that rare ability of writing in a way that invites a sense of mental freedom within the reader and permits one to savor and interpret his imagry without being bludgeoned by common or heavy handed verbosity.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060733497?v=glance (2007 words)

	Kay, Guy Gavriel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Guy Gavriel Kay, and this book in particular, have been highly recommended to me by many people for quite some time now.
		Kay is a writer that I'm going to have to spend more time with in the future.
		Kay follows that with a lengthy introduction of a courier, who then disappears from the story.
	members.aol.com /skyedrake/kay.html (601 words)

	Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With his usual skill, Kay creates a large cast of well-rounded and believable characters who, even though they live in a world the reader will never be a part of and commit deeds that the reader will never have to participate in, are nonetheless people about whom you care.
		Kay spends hundreds of pages taking you through his characters' lives so that you care deeply and intensely for them, even if you're not aware of it.
		Kay, as someone familiar with Tolkien, is also familiar with Tolkien's idea of eucatastrophe, the reverse of the catastrophe.
	www.greenmanreview.com /fionavartapestry.htm (977 words)

	INTERVIEW WITH GUY GAVRIEL KAY
		GGK: Restraint is one way to describe it, but it's the same kind of restraint that a sonnet imposes upon a writer: you've got to use fourteen lines and an iambic pentameter and a given rhyme scheme if you're doing a proper Petrarchan sonnet.
		GGK: The feudal question of Lancelot's duty to Arthur and his violation of that duty is obviously central to what medieval writers would have been exploring, but I found it more interesting and compelling to explore the transgression of bonding and friendship than of feudal duty.
		GGK: I would maintain that Guinevere's response on the beach is not distanced; but it is not, I'll concede, cataclysmic, on the level, say, of Kimberley's response to what she does to the Paraiko, or what she refuses to do to the dwarves, which are central, plot-driving threads.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/intrvws/kay.htm (7699 words)

	dragonsworn [book review] - Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's pretty well undisputed that Guy Gavriel Kay is one of the masters of contemporary high fantasy.
		Kay has a tendency to build his characters upon the ideal hero, and as a result, sometimes it's difficult to feel a complete sense of understanding for a character.
		Kay has handled political intrigue wonderfully, as different factions are well-defined and equisitely developed.
	www.dragonsworn.com /reviews/books/sarantium.html (904 words)

	The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay - an infinity plus review
		There are no dry technical facts and what Kay delivers is a living, breathing, burping, laughing, fighting narration where you can smell the horse dung on the roads and feel the cold radiating from the castle's stone walls in Winter.
		And Kay's use of speech is intelligent and layered too--it drives the plot and illustrates his 9th Century world concurrently.
		Kay even manages to spin-off additional stories at tangents along the way to show how the stories of side characters are equally valid.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/lastlightofthesun.htm (728 words)

	Mythic Passages Newsletter Page 8
		To read the works of Guy Gavriel Kay is to open a door in your mind to the realm of myth and legend.
		Kayâs works touch on the substance of myth itself, the aching inner truth that resonates against the touchstones of the world.
		For Kay does create characters that function on multiple levels â“ as heroes of their own journeys, as mythic icons, and as flesh-and-blood people that could co-exist alongside any of us just as easily as they inhabit their own universes.
	www.mythicjourneys.org /passages/newsletterp8.html (1182 words)

	What if John Wilkes Booth Shot My Grandfather? Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Guy Gavriel Kay: The thing is, for example, that we are so far removed from the worldview of even a 12th century European that such a figure would be truly alien to modern readers (and writers).
		Guy Gavriel Kay: I was just about to ask if it would be OK if I put a Sean Russell and Pam Sargent in a novel, say at an SF con party and had you do scandalous things...
		Guy Gavriel Kay: We are not offering the illusion we know what Henry VIII said to Anne Boleyn the night before he decided to have her arrested.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/jul01/eosconalthist.htm (3058 words)

	Guy Gavriel Kay - Arts and Faith
		Guy Gavriel Kay's novels are crying out to be adapted for the big screen, and this is a great place to start! Thanks for the news.
		While we're on the subject of religion, there is an interesting paper from the same website that compares Kay to Tolkien, presented at the 2002 Conference on Christianity and Literature: From Middle Earth to Fionavar: Free Will and Sacrifice in High Fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay.
		Part of this may be because Kay does variations on the same archetypes (the grizzled outlaw, the machiavellian monarch, the beautiful courtesan, to add a few to your list), and by this point, he is able to deepen their individual storylines and motivations while integrating them more seamlessly into the whole than before.
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=7587 (4260 words)

	Guy Gavriel Kay The Last Light of the Sun Reviewed by Katie Dean
		This is not to suggest that Kay has simply taken historical fact and reworked it to serve his own purpose; rather, he has made good use of fact in order to create a very believable fiction.
		Kay's skill as a storyteller is apparent throughout this novel.
		Kay uses a style of terse, short sentences to reveal his character's thoughts and feelings, creating a cast of people sufficiently complex to be believable.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/kay-last_light_sun.htm (550 words)

	Review: The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
		As usual, Kay casts the net of his plot far and wide, following Norse, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon characters alike, men and women, through exile, raids gone bad, the demands of being the daughter of a king, and thwarted revenge.
		He strikes a balance between delicacy and a very inhuman outlook, and with just a few scenes he gives a hint of a culture that is very much other, concerned with far different matters than humanity.
		I've never read a Kay novel that didn't leave me emotionally overwhelmed by the ending, and this one is no exception.
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-451-45965-2.html (950 words)

	The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay) - review
		By placing his work so close to historical reality Kay has only exposed its shallowness; in Tigana religion is also an empty shell, but there it doesn't play a major role in the plot and it is not a parasitic parody of a real religion.
		The heroes are, of course, great swordsmen, diplomats, generals, lovers, and even poets (Kay inflicts quite uncalled for amounts of his own poetry on the reader).
		At the end we are supposed to feel sorrow for the fall of Al-Rassan and the passing of a way of life, not because Kay has described it and it is sad, but because he tells us we should be sad, and plays the appropriate emotional chords.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Lions_of_Al-Rassan.html (591 words)

	Review of Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kay is canny enough to give Dianora a better role than this woman-betrayed-by-her-body stereotype seems to indicate.
		Kay does not insert a tract; rather the commentary is implied, giving the book both a superficial likeness to other, less thoughtful fantasy, and a lasting significance when the difference is considered.
		Kay uses this to overcome the drawbacks of the standard fantasy fare that he is dealing with, like the maps and the roadside inns and the mental battle between sorcerers.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/tigana.htm (1022 words)

	Review \| The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At least part of this is due the fact that much of Kay's fantasy is based in history.
		His battle-hungry Erlings are wonderfully viking-like, his music-voiced Cyngael seem patterned on the people of ancient Wales and one doesn't need to read the book to guess the basis for the Anglcyns: even the name drops hints about their Anglo-Saxon leanings.
		Kay skillfully weaves it into the whole and while, at the outset of our journey into The Last Light of the Sun the threads seem at once interesting and disconnected, Kay brings them together with symphonic style, in ways that are original and unexpected.
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/lastlight.html (486 words)

	Guy Gavriel Kay's Fantasy Worlds - page 1 of 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay is a unique voice in the fantasy genre.
		Kay's works are full of unforgettable characters and themes.
		Guy Kavriel Kay is a fantasy writer of high quality and talent.
	www.epicsff.com /articles/04/11/guygavrielkaysfw (752 words)

	Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana; A Song for Arbonne - review
		Guy Gavriel Kay made an impressive debut with his first novel, the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy.
		An increasing use of historical rather than fantastic elements is also notable, and here Kay has clearly done his research properly.
		The gist of the plot is that Arbonne (based on medieval Provence) is threatened by invasion from Gorhaut (controlled by the bad guys) and the hero (an exile from Gorhaut) joins the good guys and saves the day.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Tigana.html (414 words)

	Guy Gavriel Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Making brilliant use of saga, song and chronicle, Guy Gavriel Kay has written a novel of infinite, spellbinding richness, full to the brim with intrigue, passion and unforgettable storytelling.
		Guy Gavriel Kay continues to marry history with high fantasy in a setting that evokes - and vividly recaptures - the glamour, danger and decadence of the Byzantine Empire.
		Guy Gavriel Kay was born and raised in Canada, although he does most of his writing in Europe.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/guygavrielkay.html (547 words)

	Scifi and Fantasy Forum: Books and Book Reviews: Guy Gavriel Kay
		Kay is one of the best fantasy writers I have had the pleasure of reading.
		I love the romance of it all, and I love the awareness his characters have of endings and beginnings, though honestly, some characters are just too darned aware for their own good.
		I love Kay's enchantment with his own work and how he makes the reader grieve with him for the ending of great things.
	speculativevision.com /forum/messages/15/61.html (957 words)

	Review of Guy Gavriel Kay's Sailing to Sarantium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kay has an excellent grasp of characterization, but he does have a tendency to get distracted by the lives of minor characters.
		Crispin is also tormented by survivor's guilt, because of the deaths of his wife and two young daughters of the plague the year before the novel opens.
		Kay's writing style is as lucid and potent as always.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/sarantium.htm (968 words)

	Bio of Guy Gavriel Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Guy Gavriel Kay's literary career began when he was engaged by the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien to help edit and complete Tolkien's posthumous masterpiece, The Silmarillion.
		Kay's own epic trilogy the Fionavar Tapestry, has been hailed as a modern classic and one of the best fantasies ever written.
		The author of the international bestsellers, Tigana and A Song for Arbonne, Kay has been both a winner of the Prix Aurora Award and a World Fantasy award nominee.
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	Doug's Library -- Guy Gavriel Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kay introduced himself to SF with this series of books.
		If anything, I think Kay has written a work that should be properly shelved as historical fiction (though it isn't, for obvious marketing reasons).
		The story is told from the point of view of a Kindath (gypsy?) female doctor named Jehane, as she gets caught up in the affairs of the great men who drive the history of the time.
	personal.tcu.edu /~dingram/books/gkay.html (456 words)

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