Ash (Mary Gentle)
Apr. 13th, 2019 03:53 pmI forgot that I read Ash in December and January!
Ash: A Secret History (2000)(Mary Gentle) is alt history fantasy. It uses the word "fuck" a lot. The thumping doorstopper of a novel claims to be based on medieval texts covering the life of a mercenary captain, Ash, with a number of interstitial email hardcopies of conversations between the "translator" and a publisher's agent. The emails are less unimportant than they initially appear.
I made my first stab at Ash pre-LJ... late high school? Early college? In the US, It was published in four paperback volumes, and I happened to get my hands on the first. It was a period of indiscriminate reading. I struggled through the rape, gore, and sense that something was Not Right about the historical background until the end of the first volume, and despite my usual completionist streak, never got around to the rest of the series.
However, Ash is now available in one complete ebook, and was $3.99 when![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cahn picked it up based on rachelmanija's reread and got me thinking about it again. Just as importantly, I was doing a lot of travel in December and January, and big fat ebooks pack exceptionally well for long flights.
( Spoilers consider about what is reality, anyway. )
Ash: A Secret History (2000)(Mary Gentle) is alt history fantasy. It uses the word "fuck" a lot. The thumping doorstopper of a novel claims to be based on medieval texts covering the life of a mercenary captain, Ash, with a number of interstitial email hardcopies of conversations between the "translator" and a publisher's agent. The emails are less unimportant than they initially appear.
I made my first stab at Ash pre-LJ... late high school? Early college? In the US, It was published in four paperback volumes, and I happened to get my hands on the first. It was a period of indiscriminate reading. I struggled through the rape, gore, and sense that something was Not Right about the historical background until the end of the first volume, and despite my usual completionist streak, never got around to the rest of the series.
However, Ash is now available in one complete ebook, and was $3.99 when
cahn picked it up based on rachelmanija's reread and got me thinking about it again. Just as importantly, I was doing a lot of travel in December and January, and big fat ebooks pack exceptionally well for long flights. ( Spoilers consider about what is reality, anyway. )