Mary Gentle

Mary Gentle

Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a UK science fiction and fantasy author.

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Literary career

Mary Gentle's first published novel was Hawk in Silver (1977), a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the Orthe duology, which consists of Golden Witchbreed (1983) and Ancient Light (1987).

The novels Rats and Gargoyles (1990), The Architecture of Desire (1991), and Left to His Own Devices (1994), together with several short stories, form a loosely linked series (collected in White Crow in 2003). As with Michael Moorcock's series about his anti-heroic Jerry Cornelius, Gentle's sequence retains some basic facts about her two protagonists Valentine (also known as the White Crow) and Casaubon while changing much else about them, including what world they inhabit. Several take place in an alternate-history version of 17th century and later England, where a form of Renaissance Hermetic magic has taken over the role of science. Another, Left To His Own Devices, takes place in a cyberpunk-tinged version of our own near future. The sequence is informed by historically existing ideas about esotericism and alchemy and is rife with obscure allusions to real history and literature.

Grunts! (1992) is a grand guignol parody of mass-market high fantasy novels, with orcs as heroes, murderous halflings, and racist elves.

Gentle formed part of the Midnight Rose collective in the early 1990s.

Her novel Ash: A Secret History (published in four volumes in the US) was a long science fantasy epic that won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2000. Gentle has since published Ilario, set in the same timeline.

She has also written a number of erotic novels under the name Roxanne Morgan.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

As Roxanne Morgan

Novellas

Collections

Notes

  • Ash: A Secret History was published in the US in four paperback volumes:
    • A Secret History: The Book of Ash, #1
    • Carthage Ascendant: The Book of Ash, #2
    • The Wild Machines: The Book of Ash, #3
    • Lost Burgundy: The Book of Ash, #4
  • The novella Under the Penitence was incorporated into the Ilario: The Lion's Eye.
  • Left to His Own Devices includes both the novel of the same name, printed for the first time, which forms part of the White Crow sequence, and also a few related and unrelated stories, some of which take place in the Weerde shared universe created by the collective Gentle belonged to, Midnight Rose.
  • Cartomancy puts together Gentle's short fiction unrelated to the White Crow sequence, which she included in the White Crow omnibus which also included all of the novels.

References

  1. ^ "Usenet posting by Mary Gentle discussing her appearance on BBC Radio 4's Open Book.". http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.media.radio.archers/msg/96dac9933f50916c. 

External links

  • Mary Gentle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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