All the Seas of the World
core novel 2022 The Lions of Al-Rassan / The Sarantine Mosaic
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (5,108 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 528 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593441046 |
Synopsis
All the Seas of the World is set some years after the events of A Brightness Long Ago, in a world drawing on Renaissance Italy, the wider Mediterranean, and North Africa, roughly five years after the fall of Sarantium. It follows Rafel ben Natan, a Kindath merchant who sometimes works as a corsair, and Nadia bint Dhiyan, formerly known as Lenia Serrano, a woman who escaped Osmanli captivity and has become his close partner. The two are drawn into international intrigue when they are hired by rival khalifs to carry out an assassination against another ruler, a mission that pulls them into a wider web of power, vengeance, and political maneuvering around the Mediterranean, and brings them into contact with figures connected to the earlier novel, including Folco Cino d'Acorsi and Guidanio Cerra.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Lions of Al-Rassan / The Sarantine Mosaic
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Awards (verified)
- Aurora Award (Best Novel), 2023: nominated; Finished runner-up, per Wikipedia.
Notes
- Same world as Al-Rassan/Sarantine Mosaic/Children of Earth and Sky/A Brightness Long Ago. Nominated for the 2023 Aurora Award for Best Novel, finishing runner-up (per Wikipedia).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within The Lions of Al-Rassan / The Sarantine Mosaic (standalone work): position 6 of 7: previous A Brightness Long Ago (2019) · next Written on the Dark (2025)
Sources
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