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Mary Gentle

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Mary Gentle


Born
in Eastbourne, Sussex, The United Kingdom
March 29, 1956

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


This author also writes under the pseudonym of Roxanne Morgan

Excerpted from Wikipedia:
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 wor ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 12,128 ratings · 1,197 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors
Grunts
3.51 avg rating — 1,683 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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Ash: A Secret History (Book...
4.11 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions
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Golden Witchbreed (Orthe, #1)
3.76 avg rating — 1,124 ratings — published 1983 — 30 editions
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A Secret History (The Book ...
3.62 avg rating — 790 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions
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A Sundial in a Grave: 1610
3.58 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2003 — 26 editions
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Rats and Gargoyles (White C...
3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1990
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The Black Opera
3.37 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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Ancient Light (Orthe #2)
3.66 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions
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The Wild Machines (Book of ...
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“War doesn’t have a kingdom,” she said. “War belongs to the whole world. Come on, my little scarlet Horseman. Have a drink.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History
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“All warriors are brothers in arms, whether they fight for the Light or the Dark. We are fated always to make war on our own kind.”
― Mary Gentle, Grunts
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“Very little,” Ash said honestly. “I’d believe very little you told me.”

“Because I’m a traitor, in your eyes?”

“No,” she said. “Because you’re a traitor in your eyes.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History
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Polls

Poll for series to start August 1, 2020

Daevabad Trilogy (3 books) by S.A. Chakraborty, starting with The City of Brass
 
  29 votes, 40.8%

Riddle-Master Trilogy (3 books) by Patricia A. McKillip, starting with The Riddle-Master of Hed
 
  16 votes, 22.5%

Chronicles of the Black Gate series (5 books) by Phil Tucker, starting with The Path of Flames
 
  11 votes, 15.5%

Book of Ash (4 books) by Mary Gentle, starting with A Secret History
 
  9 votes, 12.7%

Promethean Age series (5 books) by Elizabeth Bear, starting with Blood and Iron
 
  6 votes, 8.5%

71 total votes
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