The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy appeared at a time “when large fantasy works, and Kay’s work was clearly one work in three volumes, invited comparison to… The Lord Of The Rings,” Maureen Speller pointed out in the St. Kay could not avoid the comparison with Tolkien. The Wandering Fire won the Casper Award for the best SF or Fantasy Novel by a Canadian author, and Tigana won the award (by then called the Aurora) in 1990. Sailing To Sarantium is scheduled for 1998. Tigana was published in 1990, A Song For Arbonne in 1992, and The Lions of Al-Rassan in 1995. It was followed the nest year by the other two volumes of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road.

Kay’s first published fantasy book was The Summer Tree in 1985. Between 19 he served as associate producer and principle writer for the Canadian television series “The Scales Of Justice” and Kuzca speculates that Kay may have learned much about scene-setting and the use of dialogue from his television experience. in philosophy in 1975, and at the University Of Toronto, where he earned a law degree in 1978. He was born in 1954 in Canada, educated at the University of Manitoba, where he earned a B.A. And that of course is how Kay broke into the fantasy business. Tolstoy” after the mid 1960s a fantasy world novel, particularly a long, epic fantasy novel, inevitably was going to be compared with Lord Of The Rings. Hemingway once said that writing a novel was “getting into the ring with Mr. According to Peter Kuzca writing in The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy, Kay “seems to have learned from the experience… How to combine worldbuilding with the narrative vigour of mythic plot structure, giving his work a strength and intelligence missing from most sub-Tolkien epics.” Moreover, Kay has been quoted as saying that “to be successful in fantasy, you have to take the measure of Tolkien – work with his strengths and away from his weaknesses.” The Silmarillion was the core work that Tolkien started writing immediately after World War 1, but the text of that basic document was not put together and published until 1977, four years after Tolkien’s death. Tolkien’s son Christopher edit The Silmarillion in the 1970s. And it has particular application to the work of Guy Gavriel Kay, who helped J.R.R.

Certainly that is true in high fantasy, with its autonomous, secondary worlds. In the field of fantasy, eras are measured as B.T.

Thanks to Clinton Hammond for typing it up. This piece was written by Professor James Gunn as an introduction to a leatherbound edition of Tigana published by Easton Press, as part of a series ‘the leatherbound masterpieces of fantasy’.

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