Barbara Hambly
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born
August 28, 1951
gender
female
place of birth
San Diego, California, The United States
website
genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
influences
L. Frank Baum, J.R.R. Tolkien
about this author
Ranging from fantasy to historical fiction, Barbara Hambly has a masterful way of spinning a story. Her twisty plots involve memorable characters, lavish descriptions, scads of novel words, and interesting devices. Her work spans the Star Wars universe, antebellum New Orleans, and various fantasy worlds, sometimes linked with our own.
"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
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Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.03 — 778 ratings — published 1995 14 editions |
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Planet of Twilight by Barbara Hambly avg rating 2.90 — 517 ratings — published 1997 10 editions |
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Dragonsbane (Winterlands, Book 1) by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.86 — 332 ratings — published 1985 9 editions |
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Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.90 — 313 ratings — published 1988 10 editions |
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The Armies of Daylight (The Darwath Trilogy, Book 3) by Barbara Hambly avg rating 4.05 — 249 ratings — published 1983 3 editions |
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A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, Book 1) by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.99 — 245 ratings — published 1997 5 editions |
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The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, Book 1) by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.96 — 236 ratings — published 1986 3 editions |
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The Silicon Mage (Windrose Chronicles, Book 2) by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.98 — 228 ratings — published 1988 3 editions |
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Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly avg rating 4.12 — 209 ratings — published 1982 5 editions |
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The Ladies of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly avg rating 3.86 — 222 ratings — published 1984 4 editions |
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"The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough."
— Barbara Hambly (Time of the Dark)
— Barbara Hambly (Time of the Dark)
"Asher woke feeling stronger, but still weighted, not only with exhaustion, but with an uncaring lassitude of the spirit with which he was familiar from his more rough-and-tumble philological research trips."
— Barbara Hambly
— Barbara Hambly
"The universe, it appeared, had never been kind to Captain Bortrek, conspiring against him in a fashion that Threepio privately considered unlikely given the man's relative unimportance. Knowing what he did about the Alderaan social structure, shipping regulations, the psychology of law enforcement agents, and the statistical behavior patterns of human females, Threepio was much inclined to doubt that so many hundreds of people would spend that much time thinking up ways to thwart and injure a small-time free-trader who was, by his own assertion, only trying to make a living."
— Barbara Hambly
— Barbara Hambly
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