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Overview: Mary Gentle’s first published novel was Hawk in Silver (1977), a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the Orthe duology, which consists of Golden Witchbreed (1983) and Ancient Light (1987).
The novels Rats and Gargoyles (1990), The Architecture of Desire (1991), and Left to His Own Devices (1994), together with several short stories, form a loosely linked series (collected in White Crow in 2003). As with Michael Moorcock’s series about his anti-heroic Jerry Cornelius, Gentle’s sequence retains some basic facts about her two protagonists Valentine (also known as the White Crow) and Casaubon while changing much else about them, including what world they inhabit. Several take place in an alternate-history version of 17th century and later England, where a form of Renaissance Hermetic magic has taken over the role of science. Another, Left To His Own Devices, takes place in a cyberpunk-tinged version of our own near future. The sequence is informed by historically existing ideas about esotericism and alchemy and is rife with obscure allusions to real history and literature.
Genre: Fantasy
1. Rats And Gargoyles
A labyrinthine city, too immense for the mind to easily comprehend; where medieval cathedrals, Renaissance chateaux and factory production lines co-exist; where Rats are kings and humans their servents;where gods are capricious and miracles happen every day. A city beyond time and imagination.
Tension in the city is strained beyond breaking point.Deep beneath the streets, a plot to overthrow the Rat-lords is hatching. On production lines there are whispers of a wildcar strike.Unearthly dangers begin to threaten both the irreverent and the wise – for the apcocalypse itself may be approaching…
2. The Architecture Of Desire
As two factions–the royalists devoted to Queen Carola and the soldiers who follow the Protector-General Olivia–battle for control of London, the White Crow, Master Physician, and her husband, the Lord-Architect Casaubon, are drawn into the magical strife.
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