Mary Gentle?

[Keita]

The library got a whole bunch of new books and among them was "Golden witchbreed" by Mary Gentle. This immediately brought back fond memories (I read the book years ago when I was still at school) so I just HAD to take it and reread!

Anybody else read it or it's sequel "Ancient light"? Your thoughts?

[Brenda]

What's it about?

[Kitsch]

If you can, try and pick up 'Ash - A Secret History'. It's an alternative history to what happened to Burgundy and Carthage and is told both from the point of view of a Medieval woman who hears voices and the man investigating her life hundreds of years later.

[Keita]

What's it about?

A post holocaust alien world. Earth sends an envoy, Lynne DeLissle Christie, to Orthe, thinking that it's pre-technological. It's absolutely fascinating. Can't tell you more without giving the story away. ALso, I haven't as yet reread it and my memory is sketchy...

[Elisabetha]

I have read both of those books (they were published as one not so long ago under the title Orthe) and I liked them a lot. I have also read Ash and 1610 a sundial in a grave. I have to say that I like those to a bit more than Orthe. Probably because they are alternative histories.
I really enjoy Mary Gentle's books. Her writingstyle is captivating and even though they are books of thousand + pages it is very difficult to put them away, even for something as necessary as food or sleep.

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[Bardmaiden]

I've read them both, but not for a few years....Hmm I wonder where they are?
;)