Mary Gentle

Mary Rosalyn Gentle (* 1956 in Sussex , England ) is a British writer who writes in the genres of fantasy and science fiction .

Mary Gentle was born in Sussex in 1956. When she left school at the age of 16, she worked in various sideline jobs before becoming a freelance writer in 1979. In 1981 she studied Political Science , English and Geography at Bournemouth University and then English and History at Goldsmiths College . After successfully completing her studies, she did her Masters at Kings College in 1995 in the field of war science . Gentle lives in Stevenage with her partner Dean Wayland .

Works

KDA = no German edition

Chronicle of Carrick V to Ambassador Lynne de Lisle Christie (Orthe cycle)

• 1983 Golden Witchbreed (German: Goldenes Hexenvolk (1985, ISBN 3-453-31267-8 )) (science fiction)
• 1983 The Crystal Sunlight, The Bright Air (German: The crystal sunlight, the bright air ) (short story)
• 1987 Ancient Light (German: Altes Licht (1991, ISBN 3-453-04993-4 )) (Science-fiction)

Council Lords

• Lord of the Rats , 1996, ISBN 3-453-09476-X , Rats and Gargoyles , 1991
• The Architecture of Desire , 1991 (KDA)
• Left to His Own Devices , 1994 (KDA)

White Crow & Casaubon cycle

Fantasy cycle

• 1989 Beggars in Satin (Novellette) (KDA)
• 1989 The Knot Garden (Novellette) (KDA)
• 1990 Rats and Gargoyles (German: Herr der Ratten (1996))
• 1990 Black Motley (short novel)
• 1991 The Architecture of Desire (KDA)
• 1994 Left to His Own Devices (KDA), contains the novel as well as three stories (not from the White Crow & Casaubon universe):
  • 'Black Motley'
  • 'What God Abandoned'
  • 'The Road to Jerusalem'

Ash

• 1999/2000 Ash - A Secret History (science fiction / alternative story with fantasy flair), American edition in four volumes (German translation with equivalent volume division):
  • A Secret History , 1999, (German: Der Blaue Löwe (2003, ISBN 3-404-20566-9 ))
  • Carthage Ascendant , 2000, (German: Der Aufstieg Karthagos (2003, ISBN 3-404-20572-3 ))
  • The Wild Machines , 2000, (German: Der Steinerne Golem (2004, ISBN 3-404-20577-4 ))
  • Lost Burgundy , 2000 (German: Der Untergangs Burgunds (2004, ISBN 3-404-20584-7 ))
• The Logistics of Carthage , 2002 (short novel)

Other novels

• 1977 A Hawk in Silver (German: Der silberne Falke (1996, ISBN 3-453-02754-X .)) (Book for young people, fantasy)
• 1992 Grunts! (German: The last battle of the orcs (2003, ISBN 3-492-28533-3 )) (Fantasy)
• 2003 1610: A Sundial in a Grave (German: 1610 - The Last Alchemist (2006, ISBN 3-404-20544-8 )) (alternative story / fantasy)
• 2003 1610: A Sundial in a Grave (German: 1610 - Children of Hermes (2006, ISBN 3-404-20537-5 )) (alternative story / fantasy)
• 2003 1610: A Sundial in a Grave (German: 1610 - Sons of Time (2006, ISBN 3-404-20544-8 )) (alternative story / fantasy)
• 2004 Under the Penitence

stories

• 1983 The Harvest of Wolves (short story)
• 1983 A Shadow Under the Sea (short story) (Hundred Isles universe)
• 1983 The Pits Beneath the World (short story)
• 1984 Anukazi's Daughter (Short Story) (Hundred Isles Universe)
• 1985 A Sun in the Attic (short story)
• 1988 The Tarot Dice (Novellette)

• 1989 Scholars and Soldiers (short story collection), includes:
  • 'Introduction' (by Neil Gaiman )
  • 'Beggars in Satin'
  • 'The Harvest of Wolves'
  • 'The Crystal Sunlight, The Bright Air'
  • 'The Tarot Dice'
  • 'Anukazi's Daughter'
  • 'A Sun in the Attic'
  • 'A Shadow Under the Sea'
  • 'The Pits Beneath the World'
  • 'The Knot Garden'

• 1990 Ambitions (vignette)
• 1991 The Road to Jerusalem (Novellette)
• 1992 What God Abandoned (Novellette) (set in the Weerde universe, a fictional occult underworld created jointly by Neil Gaiman , Mary Gentle and Roz Kaveney )
• 1994 Human Waste (short story)
• 1998 Kitsune (short story)
• 1997 Orc's Drift (with Dean Wayland ) (short story)
• 2004 Cast a Long Shadow (short story)

Awards

• 2000 - BSFA Award and Sidewise Award for the novel Ash - A Secret History .

Web links

• Literature by and about Mary Gentle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mary Gentle in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Mary Gentle at Open Library
• Mary Gentle in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)