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Maybe.
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https://www.westeros.org/News/Entry/Fantasy_Recommendation_All_The_Seas_of_the_World

>In All the Seas of the World, Kay returns once more to his most frequently revisited alternate history setting, where the stories often touch upon the tensions between the followers of the three major religions: the Asharites (Muslims), the Jaddites (Christians) and the Kindath (Jews). I have not consciously reflected on this before, but when reading this book, I started thinking more about the choice of having these three religions be celestial, worshipping the stars, the sun and the two moons respectively. To me, it heightens the tragedy and futility inherent in religious conflicts that their objects of worship are essentially the same things, seen in the same sky, which is an obvious parallel to the Judeo-Christian deity shared by all three of our equivalent religions.

>While the shared universe connects this novel to several of Kay’s earlier works, it is with the two most recent books—Children of Earth and Sky and A Brightness Long Ago—that it is most closely entwined, especially the latter, as it recounts the complicated, often-bloody history of conflict in something like the late 15th century as the growing power of the Asharites threatens (and eventually overwhelms) the great city of Sarantium and changes the entire balance of power around the Middle Sea. Note: this does not mean this is the last novel in a trilogy in the sense that you need to read the books in order, or even read all of them, as they tell standalone narratives ... but it is something of a thematic trilogy, revisiting the same milieu and some of the same characters and examining them in different ways.

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>That said, the craft with which this tapestry is woven is exquisite on all levels, both when it comes to the current story and the threads picked up from previous novels. When Kay chooses to show a few short glimpses of what happens to a minor character, those glimpses are enough for you to care about their fate.