Winter '16 Reading Reviews #bookreviews #amreading
A couple weeks late, but it gave me a chance to finally finish Tigana, which has been haunting me since the fall. This review has minor spoilers for Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan, Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka, The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster, Games Wizards Play (Young Wizards series) by Diane Duane. (more…)
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Tom Holt/K.J. Parker’s fantasy works do include some Byzantine names and allusions, but they tend to be rather mild. I think the Fencer trilogy (Colors in the Steel, Belly of the Bow, The Proof House) probably go the deepest into Byzantine allusions, with the first book being set in a massive Constantinople-like medieval city that is sacked by the end of the book. If you want to go the science-fiction route, Arkady Martine’s Teixcalaan books (currently just A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace) rework the Byzantine Empire’s annexation of Armenia in the 11th century into a space opera setting.
Do you know of any (even halfway decent) fantasy set in a Byzantine setting? A Shadow and Bone set in Constantinople for example.
Sailing to Sarantium and its sequel Lord of Emperors, by Guy Gavriel Kay.