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Ancient Light by Mary Gentle
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
This gracefully written sequel to Golden Witchbreed powerfully depicts the impact of a high-technology civilization on a decaying planet. Ten years after having served as Earth's first envoy to Orthe, which is struggling to survive after a planetwide holocaust millennia ago, Lynne de Lisle Christie retu ...Show more
Black Opera by Mary Gentle
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be ...Show more
Ilario by Mary Gentle
Category: Fiction
'We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us...'
Ilario: The Lion's Eye by Mary Gentle
Category: Fiction | Series: Gollancz S.F.
A prequel to the award-winning ASH, set 50 years earlier
The Landing by Mary Gentle
Category: Fiction
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE MEANT TO BE OBEYED. Aeris Warren-Finch is NASA's Acting Director of the New Earth Object Lab, overseeing the transit of a large unidentified object past Earth's orbit. She's trained and worked all her life for this. She couldn't be more ready. But the object changes trajectory. ...Show more
The Stone Golem by Mary Gentle
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Ilario, a Story of the First History Ser.
The dramatic conclusion to Ilario: The Lion's Eye! Fleeing a surprise treacherous murder attempt, the former King's Freak and would-be painter Ilario has run to Carthage, the city-state under perpetual darkness, in search of freedom. But strange plots are afoot, and a tenuous, complicated alliance with ...Show more