Hmm. I just finished Mary Gentle's ASH: A Secret History a couple of weeks ago. It kicks off a four-book thing, though, and I haven't read the other three yet. Premise: female mercenary captain, pretty gritty/realistic war fiction in 15thC(?) Burgundy. Only maybe it's not--maybe it's an alternate history, and she's an artefact from a different history. We (the reader and the translator framing narrative) can't tell.
What else... seconding the Connie Willis rec, if you haven't already read her. Louise Cooper? She does fantasy, mostly, and her worlds tend toward the darker. I'd recommend the Time Master trilogy (The Initiate, The Outcast, The Adept) and then if you like her, go for the Indigo books.
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Date: 2008-09-20 05:02 pm (UTC)What else... seconding the Connie Willis rec, if you haven't already read her. Louise Cooper? She does fantasy, mostly, and her worlds tend toward the darker. I'd recommend the Time Master trilogy (The Initiate, The Outcast, The Adept) and then if you like her, go for the Indigo books.
Pamela Dean? Patricia McKillip? Jeannette Winterson?