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Author Review: Barbara Hambly (1951 –
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"I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into
the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts."
- Barbara Hambly
Barbara was born and grew up in southern California. She was drawn to fantasy at an early age after reading The Wizard of Oz. She attended the University of California and earned a master's degree in medieval history. After college, she searched for a job that would allow her time to write. The varied jobs she held included high-school teacher, waitress, technical editor, all-night clerk at a liquor store, professional graduate student (gee, I've tried that one), writer for children's cartoon shows and karate instructor. Fortunately for us, Del Rey published her first novel, Time of the Dark, and her career as a full time writer was launched.
Ms. Hambly currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband (also an author) and two Pekinese dogs. Besides writing, her other interests include dancing, painting, historical and fantasy costuming, carpentry and Shotokan Karate (she holds a black belt).
Hambly's varied work spans a variety of genres. Although, most of her works are fantasy novels, she has also written science fiction (Star Wars and Star Trek), historical whodunits, novelizations of television shows (Beauty and the Beast) and even vampire novels. It is refreshing to see a writer who is comfortable in so many different and challenging genres.
Hambly takes pride in researching the settings for her novels thoroughly. She is said to be irked by authors that set their novels in Los Angeles but who have never lived there or who fail to research the city adequately. No doubt her background in medieval history served her well in her creation of the settings for the Darwath and Winterlands series.
In additional to wonderful settings, her novels contain well thought out plots, plenty of action, dry humor and often, a bit of romance. Some recurring themes that she adopts are the estrangement of adult (or young adult) children from their families and characters who cross from one world (universe) to another. Her characters tend to develop close feelings for the other adventurers that share their quests.
The Windrose Chronicles
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The Silent Tower |
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The Silicon Mage |
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Dog Wizard |
The Darwath Trilogy (plus 2)
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The Walls of Air |
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The Armies of Daylight |
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Mother of Winter |
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Icefalcon's Quest |
Sun-Wolf and Starhawk
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The Ladies of Mandrigyn |
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The Witches of Wenshar |
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The Dark Hand of Magic |
Sun-Cross
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The Rainbow Abyss |
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The Magicians of Night |
Benjamin January
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A Free Man of Color |
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Fever Season |
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Graveyard Dust |
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Sold Down the River |
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Die Upon A Kiss |
James Asher/Vampire Series
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Those Who Hunt The Night |
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Traveling With The Dead |
Winterlands
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Dragonsbane |
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Dragonshadow |
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The Knight of the Demon Queen |
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Dragonstar |
Star Wars
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Star Trek
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Ishmael |
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Ghost-Walker |
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Crossroad |
Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast |
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Song of Orpheus |
Stand-alone Novels
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Stranger at the Wedding |
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Bride of the Rat-God |
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Search the Seven Hills/The Quirinal Hill Affair |
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Fading of the Light |
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Magic Time |
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For a listing of all Barbara Hambly books available at Amazon.com, click go in the box below.
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The Official Barbara Hambly Page - Appears to be the author's official web site. Contains lots of useful information about Barbara and seems to be updated fairly regularly. |
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