Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,612
edits
Barbara Hambly: Difference between revisions
added trope
(minor copyediting, and fixing one of the trope names) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (added trope) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{creator}}
{{Needs Image}}
[[Barbara Hambly]] is an American SF and mystery writer. Her works include several otherworld fantasy series, a historical fantasy series with vampires, and a series of historical mysteries.
Line 8 ⟶ 9:
Two good starting points for Hambly are ''[[Bride of the Rat God]]'', in which an actress in [[Golden Age of Hollywood|1920s Hollywood]] becomes the unwitting target of an ancient Chinese curse, and ''[[Stranger at the Wedding]]'' (aka ''Sorcerer's Ward''), a mixture of Regency romance and murder mystery with the added twist that the protagonist has foreseen the murder magically and is trying to solve it ''before it happens''. Both are standalone novels, and feature smaller-scale problems that admit of relatively neat happy endings, but are still sufficiently characteristic to give you an idea of whether this is the kind of thing you like.
* ''[[Benjamin January]]'' series
* ''[[Those Who Hunt the Night]]'' series
Line 52:
* [[The Mad Hatter]]: Antryg Windrose is very charismatically eccentric, has a reputation for being "dangerously insane", and in deep characterization confesses that he really is mad, from long years of having to sustain beliefs contrary to the reality of others around him.
* [[Market-Based Title]]: ''Sorcerer's Ward'' (''Stranger at the Wedding'')
* [[Mega Crossover]]: Her ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' [[Tie-in Novel]] ''Ishmael'' puts an amnesiac, [[Time Travel]]ing Spock in the middle of the 1960s TV show ''[[Here Come the Brides]]'' -- and then throws in characters and references from a dozen more [[The Western|Western]] and [[Science Fiction]] TV shows and films including ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]'', ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' and the ''[[Dollars Trilogy]]''.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The dragons of the Winterlands series are telepathic, magically endowed, and fairly intelligent, if a little isolated and alien in mindset. They have an honest-to-goodness addiction to gold, which is why they tend to hoard it.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: In ''Bride of the Rat God'', the title character is a movie star, and lets her cousin frequently borrow her furs, including a chinchilla coat. That's the clothing equivalent of loaning a Mercedes.
| |||