Read An Excerpt From Guy Gavriel Kay’s River of Stars

A new book from Guy Gavriel Kay is gen­er­ally a treat and SF Sig­nal have posted an advance excerpt from his lat­est River of Stars. Which is released in April.

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.

Read the excerpt here:
http://​www​.sfsig​nal​.com/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​2​0​1​3​/​0​3​/​e​x​c​e​r​p​t​-​r​i​v​e​r​-​o​f​-​s​t​a​r​s​-​b​y​-​g​u​y​-​g​a​v​r​i​e​l​-​k​a​y​-​s​h​o​u​l​d​-​r​u​n​-​i​n​-​f​e​b​r​u​ary

And if you’re feel­ing impa­tient you can always pre-order the book from Ama­zon: http://​amzn​.to/​Z​4​4​dCG

Google+: View post on Google+