Calibandar Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 (edited) Next Guy Gavriel Kay book is called River of Stars and comes out in April:http://www.amazon.co...39326491&sr=1-2 Edited June 10, 2012 by Calibandar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Next Guy Gavriel Kay book is called River of Stars and comes out in April:http://www.amazon.co...39326491&sr=1-2awesome. did some poking out. found an interview where kay says it takes place in china, about 350-400 years after Under Heaven, but is unrelated otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) New blurb:In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world – a world inspired this time by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty.Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai. That moment on a lonely road changed his life—in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later—and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north.Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor—and alienates women at the court. But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has.In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.http://www.amazon.co...42388078&sr=1-8 Edited July 15, 2012 by Jussi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 I wonder if HarperVoyager UK have dropped Kay. There have been no news about UK edition of River of Stars, and the book is missing from the publisher's database. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 For those who do have a facebook account, Kay has released the first two chapters of River of Stars on Facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Any and all input is appreciated. But damn, I swear Tigana must be a polarizing book because it tends to be in everyone's top two or among their list of criminally overrated. I always assumed that Tigana was polarizing mainly because Brandin of Ygrath is polarizing. Tigana is a great story, but it is my least favorite of the Kay novels that I have read, specifically because I hated Brandin and how Kay presented him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 No, Brandin is a proto-fascistic asshat. But then so is everyone else in that book. (Just getting in here to illustrate the polarity, yo.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 No, Brandin is a proto-fascistic asshat. But then so is everyone else in that book.(Just getting in here to illustrate the polarity, yo.)To be fair, that's kind of the beast of romantic nationalism. (which Tigana absolutely reeks of) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 What is fair about that? (Admittedly, I still haven't finished it. Six months and counting. It's because i'm not so secretly a masochist.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 I wonder if HarperVoyager UK have dropped Kay. There have been no news about UK edition of River of Stars, and the book is missing from the publisher's database.Amazon UK has the publisher as ROC, so I guess Penguin is publishing it in all the english-speaking countries itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Kay wrote in his journal on January 1st:A UK announcement/press release for River is in the works. Any day.And in December:Oh. There will be good UK news very soon. They are doing a press release. I’ll wait for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 HarperCollins UK will publish River of Stars in July:http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/83820/river-of-stars-guy-gavriel-kay-9780007521906 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Callers Only Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I thought that Ysabel one was the weakest; but haven't read the latest (don't particularly care about China) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I thought that Ysabel one was the weakest; but haven't read the latest (don't particularly care about China)You're missing out. It's fantastic. Will be looking forward to River of Stars.Currently reading Lions of Al-Rassan. I have decided that Kay is the Quentin Tarantino of fantasy. Larger than life characters that sometimes verge on caricature but generally fall just the right side of the line, no shyness about violence and, most importantly, tons of dialogue-based scenes of shifting tensions and power plays.It's great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I thought that Ysabel one was the weakest; but haven't read the latest (don't particularly care about China)What does this even mean? I hope you mean, "I'm not motivated or moved by the idea of a fantastical setting influenced and shaped by Chinese history and myth." But, even so, it's a shame you're missing out on a wonderful novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haLobEnder Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) What does this even mean? I hope you mean, "I'm not motivated or moved by the idea of a fantastical setting influenced and shaped by Chinese history and myth." But, even so, it's a shame you're missing out on a wonderful novel.I have to concur. I'm a long time Kay fan and Under Heaven is probably my favourite work of his yet. I can't wait for River of Stars. Edited January 25, 2013 by halO bendeR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) Edited for incorrectness. Edited March 9, 2013 by Calibandar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 http://www.brightwea...-news-bulletin/HarperCollins UK will publish River of Stars on July 18. But – and this will please and interest some people here, I know – they will lead with the e-book edition on April 2 … the same date River comes out in Canada and the States. With the increasingly interconnected book buying world, it just make sense for a publisher to have their electronic edition out when others do.The July timing in the UK is interesting, and I am onside with it. They are planning a new cover, and a shift of imprints, from my current Voyager to one where authors like Tracy Chevalier are published. Part of a strategy to position the book for literary/historical/mainstream readers, in addition to the core of fantasy readers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 With the increasingly interconnected book buying world, it just make sense for a publisher to have their electronic edition out when others do.With the heaving nerd-rage over Robert Jordan's widow deciding to delay the ebook of Memory of Light for a few months, this is an interesting quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Kay had a good chuckle when I mentioned that someone had compared him to Tarantino.With the heaving nerd-rage over Robert Jordan's widow deciding to delay the ebook of Memory of Light for a few months, this is an interesting quote.This is referring to the fact that the American eBook will be released alongside the hardcover in the spring. Pirated copies of the eBook will also appear at this time, easily accessed by UK readers who might buy the book otherwise, but don't want to wait until July. It's different from the aMoL eBook since that was a worldwide release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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