Mary Gentle

Mary Gentle is a famous novelist from The United Kingdom, who is popular for writing fantasy and science fiction novels. She was born on March 29, 1956 as Mary Rosalyn Gentle in Eastbourne, Sussex. Eight of the novels written by her have received critical acclaim from the critics and authors of science fiction & fantasy books. Author Gentle has completed dual Masters degrees with respect to her academic studies. She is also an expert in sword fighting and lives in England. The first published book that author Gentle wrote in her career is known as Hawk in Silver. This young adult fantasy novel was published in 1977. Author Gentle gained prominence with the publication of the dual novels of the Orthe series, Golden Witchbread and Ancient Light. Some of the standalone books and short stories written by Gentle between 1990 and 1994 were clubbed together as a loosely linked book series in 2003. The books include Rats and Gargoyles, Left to His Own Devices, The Architecture of Desire, etc., and are collectively called as the White Crow series. The sequence written by author Gentle in the books depicts the retainment of many of the basic facts related to the two protagonists named Valentine and Casaubon. Valentine is referred to as White Crow. Except the basic facts, author Gentle has changed all the other details about them, including the kind of world inhabited by them, just like in the series by author Michael Moorcock about the antihero Jerry Cornelius. Some of the stories featuring the protagonists take place in the alternate history, showing the 17th century England.