Lost Burgundy
core novel 2000 Ash: A Secret History
Record
| First published | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.92 (276 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780380811144 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Lost Burgundy, published by Mary Gentle in 2000, concludes the Book of Ash and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. With Burgundy under direct siege and the wild machines' plan for the world nearing completion, Ash and her company face the war's decisive confrontation, forced to weigh the survival of the duchy she has sworn to defend against forces operating on a scale far beyond ordinary warfare. The mercenary captain who began the series as a scavenging orphan must now decide how far she is willing to go, and what she is willing to risk, to stop a catastrophe that threatens not just Burgundy but the shape of history itself. Interwoven with the historical narrative, the modern-day translator's notes reach their own conclusions about how a document like Ash's story could exist at all, closing out the series' alternate-history framing device.
Where it sits
- Universe: Ash: A Secret History
- Series: Ash: A Secret History (The Book of Ash) core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mary Gentle
Notes
- From the series record (Ash: A Secret History (The Book of Ash)): One continuous novel, published as a single volume in the UK (Gollancz, 2000) and split into these four US paperback volumes (Eos, 1999-2000); each volume is catalogued separately here since each was published, sold, and rated individually, the same treatment already applied to The Lord of the Rings' three volumes.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Ash: A Secret History (The Book of Ash): position 4 of 4: previous The Wild Machines (2000)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Ash: A Secret History
- Worlds Without End: Ash: A Secret History
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gentle
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