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2	Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a British fantasy and science fiction author.
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4	!!!Her works include:
5	* ''A Hawk in Silver'' (1977), a young-adult fantasy
6	* The ''Orthe'' duology, science-fantasy with a human woman visiting another world, populated by humanoid but deceptively different people
7	** ''Golden Witchbreed''
8	** ''Ancient Light''
9	* The White Crow books, fantasy/AlternateHistory books featuring heavy use of Renaissance hermetic magic/alchemy and the same characters in different settings:
10	** ''Rats and Gargoyles''
11	** ''The Architecture of Desire''
12	** ''Left to His Own Devices''
13	* ''Grunts! A Fantasy with Attitude''
14	* ''Ash: A Secret History'', the story of a female mercenary captain in an alternate fifteenth century Europe. Published in four volumes in the US.
15	* ''Ilario: The Lion's Eye'', set in the same world as ''Ash''.
16	* ''1610: A Sundial in a Grave''
17	* ''The Black Opera''
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19	!!Works by Mary Gentle with their own trope pages include:
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21	* ''Literature/AshASecretHistory''
22	* ''{{Literature/Grunts}}''
23	* ''Literature/WhiteCrow''
24	[[/index]]
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26	!!Other works by Mary Gentle contain examples of:
27	* {{Doorstopper}}: Most of Mary Gentle's novels are this. Another writer wrote a 50-word story on Usenet that boils down to "When Mary Gentle writes a shopping list, a spruce tree in Norway shivers."
28	* FictionalBoardGame: In ''Golden Witchbreed'', the people of Orthe play a board game called ochmir, which involves covering a hexagonal board with flippable triangular pieces. The rules of the game are included in the book.
29	%%* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Ilario.
30	* NobodyPoops: So, '''so''' averted in all her novels.
31	* PrescienceByAnalysis: ''1610: A Sundial in a Grave'' revolves around a form of mathematics that can predict future actions, with such precision that a mathematician with no sword-wielding aptitude is capable of winning a fight by predicting it several months in advance and then practicing the exact sequence of moves that will result in victory. One character turns out to be manipulating events because he's foreseen a catastrophe four hundred years in the future that can only be averted if he starts laying the groundwork now.
32	* RatKing: In ''Rats and Gargoyles'', the titular {{Rat\|Men}}s are ruled by groups of nine of their number with [[BodyHorror their tails deliberately fused together]].
33	* SweetPollyOliver: A driving characteristic of many female characters in her works. Notably [[spoiler: Floria/Florian]] of ''Ash: A Secret History'' and [[spoiler: Dariole]] of ''1610: A Sundial in a Grave''. In the short story "What God Abandoned," Miles claims to be one. [[spoiler:S/he's a [[GenderBender sex-shifter]]; it ''still'' backfires on [[PronounTrouble them]].]]

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