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Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit [[Parallel universe (fiction)|multiverse]], as well as within previously existing settings (notably as established by ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Star Wars]]'').

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hambly's work has several themes. She has a penchant for unusual characters within the fantasy genre, such as the menopausal witch and reluctant scholar-lord in the ''Winterlands'' trilogy, or the [[Philology|philologist]] secret service agent in the vampire novels.<ref>[https://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20000911/Article_Hambly_Pellegrino.shtml "Review of female characters in Barbara Hambly novels"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114031303/https://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20000911/Article_Hambly_Pellegrino.shtml |date=2006-11-14 }}, ''Strange Horizons''</ref>

 

This [[historical mystery]] series begins with ''A Free Man of Color'' (1997) and features [[The Benjamin January Mysteries|Benjamin January]], a brilliant, classically educated, free colored surgeon and musician living in [[New Orleans]] during the [[antebellum South|antebellum]] years of the 1830s. At the time, New Orleans had a large and prosperous population of free people of color. Born a slave, as his mother was enslaved, January was freed as a young child by his mother's lover, under the [[plaçage]] system. Provided with an excellent education, he gained fluency in several classical and modern languages, and was thoroughly versed in the whole of classical Western learning and arts. He studied medicine in Paris, where he trained as a surgeon. He returned to Louisiana to escape the memory of his late wife, a woman from North Africa. As a free black in Louisiana, he cannot find work as a surgeon. He earns a modest living by his exceptional talent as a musician.

 

 

====Short stories====

 

===Abigail Adams Mysteries (written as Barbara Hamilton)===

 

===Sherlock Holmes short story pastiches===

 

===Anne Steelyard: The Garden of Emptiness===

 

===Darwath===

 

====The Darwath Trilogy====

 

====Darwath novels====

 

===Sun Wolf and Starhawk===

 

===Winterlands===

 

===The Windrose Chronicles===

 

===Star Trek Universe===

 

=== James Asher, Vampire novels ===

# ''Blood Maidens'' (2010)

# ''Magistrates of Hell'' (2012)

# ''Darkness on His Bones'' (2015)

 

The short story "Sunrise on Running Water" (2007, published in the anthology ''Dark Delicacies II: Fear'') is set in the world of the James Asher novels but does not feature Asher himself.

 

===Beauty and the Beast===

 

===Sun-Cross===

 

===Star Wars Universe===

* ''[[Children of the Jedi]]'' (1995)

* "Murder in Slushtime" (1997, short story published in ''Star Wars Adventure Journal'' 14)

* ''[[Planet of Twilight]]'' (1997)

 

===Raven Sisters ===

 

===Silver Screen Historical Mystery Series===

 

===Standalone works===

* ''Magic Time'' (2002) (with Marc Zicree. The first of a trilogy. The other two volumes are by other authors: ''Angelfire'' by Marc Scott Zicree and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and ''Ghostlands'' by Marc Scott Zicree and Robert Charles Wilson.)

* ''Renfield: Slave of Dracula'' (2006)

* "Someone Else's Shadow" (short story in the ''Night's Edge'' anthology)

 

==Television credits==

* ''[[The Centurions (TV series)|The Centurions]]'' (1986)

* ''[[Starcom: The U.S. Space Force]]'' (1987)

==References==

 

==External links==

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/19990824175836/https://scifan.com/writers/hh/HamblyBarbara.asp Bibliography] at SciFan

* {{IMDb name|id=1628287|name=Barbara Hambly }}

 

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[[Category:American fantasy writers]]

[[Category:American women short story writers]]

[[Category:Living people]]

[[Category:Writers from Riverside, California]]

[[Category:Writers of historical mysteries]]

[[Category:University of California, Riverside alumni]]

[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]

[[Category:21st-century American women writers]]

[[Category:20th-century American short story writers]]

[[Category:21st-century American short story writers]]