Mary Gentle
Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a UK science fiction and fantasy author.
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
Gentle formed part of the Midnight Rose collective in the early 1990s.
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
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Novels
- A Hawk in Silver. London: Gollancz, 1977. ISBN 0-575-02386-4
- ISBN 0-593-01956-3
- ISBN 0-575-07250-4
- The Black Opera (vt UK Black Opera). San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2012 (paper). ISBN 978-1-59780-219-2
- Orthe series
- ISBN 0-575-03332-0
- Ancient Light. London: Gollancz, 1987. ISBN 0-575-03629-X
- Orthe (omnibus edition). London: Gollancz, 2002 (paper). ISBN 0-575-07287-3
- White Crow sequence
- Rats and Gargoyles. London: Bantam, 1990. ISBN 0-593-01948-2
- The Architecture of Desire. London: Bantam, 1991. ISBN 0-593-01952-0
- Left to His Own Devices. London: Orbit, 1994 (paper). ISBN 1-85723-203-8
- White Crow (omnibus edition). London: Gollancz, 2003 (paper). ISBN 0-575-07519-8
- First History sequence
- ISBN 0-575-06900-7
- Ilario, A Story of the First History
- Ilario: The Lion's Eye. London: Gollancz, 2006. ISBN 0-575-07661-5
- Ilario: The Lion's Eye. New York: EOS, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-082183-8
- Ilario: The Stone Golem. New York: EOS, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06134-498-5
- Ilario: The Lion's Eye. New York: EOS, 2007.
- As Roxanne Morgan
- Dares. London: X Libris, 1995 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-1341-5
- Bets. London: X Libris, 1997 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-2046-2
- A Game of Masks. London: X Libris, 1999 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-2308-9
- Who Dares, Sins. London: X Libris, 1999 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-2938-9
- Sinner Takes All. London: X Libris, 2000 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-3073-5
- Degrees of Desire. London: X Libris, 2001 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-3087-5
- Maximum Exposure. London: X Libris, 2004 (paper). ISBN 0-7515-3400-5
Short fiction
- Collections
- Scholars and Soldiers London: Macdonald, 1989. ISBN 0-356-17893-5
- Left to His Own Devices. London: Orbit, 1994 (paper). ISBN 1-85723-203-8
- Cartomancy. London: Gollancz, 2004 (paper). ISBN 0-575-07532-5
- Stories[2]
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under the penitence | 2004 | Under the penitence. PS Publishing. 2004. | Novella |
Critical studies and reviews of Gentle's work
- Lost Burgundy
- Killheffer, Robert K. J. (January 2001). "Books". F&SF. 100 (1): 29–36.
- The wild machines
- Killheffer, Robert K. J. (January 2001). "Books". F&SF. 100 (1): 29–36.
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 Ilario: The Lion's Eye. The two Ilario novels were also published (UK 2006) as a single narrative, also called Ilario: The Lion's Eye ISBN 978-0-575-07660-0.
- 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
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- ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
External links
- Mary Gentle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Mary Gentle at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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