Mary Gentle

Mary Gentle

Mary Gentle is an English SF writer; she has written fantasy, alternative fantasy, and science fiction (plantary romance).

Her first published novel was A Hawk in Silver (1977; YA fantasy novel).

Gentle has several degrees:

• MA in War Studies

Names

• Mary Rosalyn Gentle (full name)
• Mary R. Gentle (alternative name)
• Roxanne Morgan (pseudonym)

Bibliography

• A Hawk in Silver (1977) (YA)
• Scholars and Soldiers (1989 collection; several are in Casaubon series)
• Grunts! (1992)
• 1610: A Sundial in a Grave (2003 novel)
• Cartomancy (2004 collection)
• Under the Penitence (2004 novella)
• Left To His Own Devices (1994) (collection; a novella in Rats & Gargoyles series + other unrelated stories)

The Book of Ash:

The series was envisioned as one novel, but released in stages, and published as four separate books in the US.

• Ash: A Secret History (2000: Victor Gollancz, 1112 pages; the whole thing)
  • A Secret History (1997, Avon Eos) (The Book of ASH, #1)
  • Carthage Ascendant (2000, Avon Eos) (The Book of ASH, #2)
  • The Wild Machines (2000, Avon Eos) (The Book of ASH, #3)
  • Lost Burgundy (2000, Avon Eos) (The Book of ASH, #4)

Ilario series (prequel to ASH)

• Ilario: The Lions' Eye (2006)
• Ilario: The Stone Golem (forthcoming)

White Crow series (aka Casaubon, aka Rat Lords):

• Two novellas in Scholars and Soldiers (1989)
• Rats and Gargoyles (1990)
• The Architecture of Desire (1991) (same universe as Rats and Gargoyles)
• Left To His Own Devices (1994 novel in Left To His Own Devices collection)
• "Black Motley" (story in Left To His Own Devices collection)
• White Crow (2003 collection)

Orthe / Witchbreed series:

• Golden Witchbreed (1983)
• Ancient Light (1987) (sequel to Golden Witchbreed)

Short Fiction

• "Orc's Drift" (1997; with Dean Wayland)
• "Human Waste" 1994)
• "What God Abandoned" (1992)
• "The Road to Jerusalem" (1991)
• "Black Motley" (1990)
• "The Tarot Dice" (1989)
• "Beggars in Satin" (1989)
• "A Sun in the Attic" (1989)
• "The Knot Garden" (1989)
• "Anukazi's Daughter" in Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices, New York, Dial, 1984.
• "A Shadow Under the Sea" (1983)
• "The Harvest of Wolves" (1983)
• "The Pits Beneath the World" (1983)
• "The Crystal Sunlight, the Bright Air" (1983)

Edited Works

• Villains!, (1992) (story collection) edited with Roz Kaveney
• The Weerde: Book 1 (1992) (story collection) edited by Roz Kaveney - shared world devised by Neil Gaiman, Gentle & Kaveney
• The Weerde: Book 2 (1993) (story collection) edited by Roz Kaveney - shared world devised by Neil Gaiman, Gentle & Kaveney

non-SFnal

• Who Dares Sins (1995) (erotica under name Roxanne Morgan) (alternative title Dares)
• Sinner Takes All (1997) (erotica under name Roxanne Morgan) (alternative title Bets)
• Game of Masks (1999) (erotica under name Roxanne Morgan)
• Degrees of Desire (2001) (erotica as Roxanne Morgan)

Further reading

• ISFDB