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Originally Posted by baileywick
FANTASY
My favorite fantasy writer of all is Guy Gavriel Kay.
His one series is the Fionavar Tapestry:
1. The Summer Tree
2. The Wandering Fire
3. The Darkest Road
Most of his other books take place in an alternate historical universe. For example, The Lions of Al-Rassan takes place in a land very similar to Spain at the time the Moors and Jews were driven out.
I love to reread Kay's books for the sheer pleasure of how he writes and tells a story.
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You can argue that they are all part of a series. In my personal favorite, Tigana, there's an oblique reference to Fionnavar.
Kay's most recent work is closer to alternate history than fantasy. The only fantastic element I can recall in _The Lions of Al-Rassan_ is the ability of the son of a main character to always know what his father is doing, regardless of where Dad is at the moment. Kay states he was inspired by the Iberian peninsula when writing the story, in the same way that Tigana has roots in Renaissance Italy.
I'm very fond of The Fionnavar Tapestry. Kay tosses in just about every myth there is from the British Isles, with a healthy dose of the Arthurian mythos, and largely pulls it off. It's one of the few books that have made me cry.
But the Weaver at his Loom was weaving a tapestry with all the stories of all the worlds, and there's no evidence the worlds in Tigana and The Lions aren't in the tapestry somewhere.
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Dennis