Mary Gentle

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

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female

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Writes erotica under the pseudonym Roxanne Morgan.

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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 inha...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 2,433 ratings · 250 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Grunts 3.46 avg rating — 362 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Secret History (The Book of Ash #1) 3.73 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Golden Witchbreed 3.60 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ash: A Secret History (4-in-1) 4.15 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Rats and Gargoyles 3.54 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Carthage Ascendant (The Book of Ash #2) 3.88 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Wild Machines (Book of Ash #3) 3.83 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lost Burgundy (Ash #4) 3.93 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Sundial in a Grave: 1610 3.51 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Ancient Light 3.53 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Book of Ash (4 books)
by Mary Gentle

3.91 avg rating — 745 ratings

Golden Witchbreed (2 books)
by Mary Gentle

3.55 avg rating — 391 ratings

A Story of the First History (2 books)
by Mary Gentle

3.43 avg rating — 150 ratings

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“La couleur du courage, c'est le brun”
― Mary Gentle, Wild Machines

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