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Guy Gavriel Kay is an award-winning Canadian fantasy author. His works are known for hewing close to medieval European history, and for having very little magic.
As a young man, he worked with Christopher Tolkien preparing JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion for publication.
Bibliography:[]
- The Fionavar Tapestry
- The Summer Tree
- The Wandering Fire
- The Darkest Road
- Tigana
- A Song For Arbonne
- The Lions of Al-Rassan
- The Sarantine Mosaic
- Sailing To Sarantium
- Lord Of Emperors
- Beyond This Dark House
- The Last Light of the Sun
- Ysabel
- Under Heaven
Tropes common to his works include:[]
- Alien Sky: The multiple moons variety.
- Author Appeal: Masquerade carnivals with anonymous sex. Also, male submission and cheating wives.
- Canon Welding: Elements from The Fionavar Tapestry show up in other books occasionally.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus
- Deadly Decadent Court
- Double Standard: Kay consistently portrays cheating husbands as scum, but cheating wives as perfectly acceptable.
- Earn Your Happy Ending
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture
- Grey and Gray Morality
- Historical Fantasy
- Low Fantasy
- True Companions
- Two Lines, No Waiting