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Marie Brennan

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Born

The United States

Website

http://swantower.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Influences

Diana Wynne Jones, Dorothy Dunnett

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June 2010

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Marie Brennan a.k.a. M.A. Carrick

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of The Mask of Mirrors, first in the Rook and Rose trilogy. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon. ...more

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	A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 45,227 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tropic of Serpents (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 15,185 ratings — published 2014 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage of the Basilisk (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 10,982 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Labyrinth of Drakes (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #4) 4.39 avg rating — 9,009 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Within the Sanctuary of Wings (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #5) 4.40 avg rating — 7,804 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warrior (Doppelganger, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 3,284 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turning Darkness Into Light (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #6) 4.18 avg rating — 2,955 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witch (Doppelganger, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 2,374 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3.5) 4.13 avg rating — 1,369 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I have not one but two new poems out this week! Putting me up to double digits in the number of poems I’ve had published so far, whee.

The first is in Merganser Magazine: “Hallucination,” about AI, linguistics, and the wish for a better world.

The second, “Cutting the Cord” in Small Wonders, is probably the closest to straight-up science fiction I’ve ever written? It’s got aliens and a space elevato

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“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

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“I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.”
― Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons

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“I sometimes imagine there is a clerk behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth. It is his job to examine utterances on their way out, and stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If such a clerk exists, mine must be very harried and overworked; and on occasion he puts his head down on the desk in despair, letting things pass without so much as a second glance.”
― Marie Brennan, In the Labyrinth of Drakes

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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, 370p

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Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett, 512p

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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, 512p

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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan, 334p

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