From archive (archive) Subject: Author Lists: Barbara Hambly From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM Date: 14 May 89 08:38:05 GMT Another good fantsy author. I personally like her "Unschooled Wizard" series, "Ishmael" [one of the two intentially silly trek novels] & "Those Who Hunt the Night" [a nice, atmospheric vampire novel]. Her Darwath Trilogy is also recommended. [NSF] == Not SF [O] == Omnibus. Includes other books. aka == Also known by this other title. /John arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hambly, Barbara [,M.A.] [U.S.A., ] The Darwath Trilogy: The Time of the Dark [1982] The Walls of Air [1982] The Armies of Daylight [1983] The Unschooled Wizard [1987] [O] The Ladies of Mandrigyn [1984] The Witches of Wenshar [1987] Darkmage [1988] [O] The Silent Tower [1986] The Silicon Mage [1988] Search The Seven Hills [1983] [NSF] [aka "The Quirnal Hill Affair"] Ishmael [1985] [star trek] Dragonsbane [1985] Those Who Hunt the Night [1988] [aka "Immortal Blood"] From archive (archive) Subject: Re: Hambly (was Re: Comics-cons are a joke.....) Summary: It *was* too tight. From: kathyli@serene.UUCP (Kathy Li aka the Rev. Mom) Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, California Date: 26 Sep 89 05:09:50 GMT In article <14608@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> fuzzy@athena.mit.edu (Pinkdex - TNG) writes: >In article <3722@blake.acs.washington.edu> gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (rwtang) writes: >> Now my question is what is this about Barbara Hambly "embarassing >>herself very badly in a Cutie Bunnie outfit"????? Hambly's on my A-list >>of SF/Fantasy authors and I didn't think she'd embarass herself too >>badly in any possible Cutie Bunnie outfit .... > Having seen her in person at a Disclave two years ago, I am of >the opinion she wouldn't embarrass herself if the costume wasn't too >tight, or if it was meant to be funny. She's definitely on the zaftig >side. The costume *was* too tight. Not that she *looked* awful, but the SDCC isn't set up well for costumers, and the audience is generally pretty brutal. No mikes, zilch technical rehearsal, and a crew that generally misses sound cues three times out of five, while never being able to hit lighting cues exactly. I think that Hambly decided on doing it on the spur-of-the-moment, and had no routine worked out. The routine was walk-on-wave-and-walk-off, only she gave the MC a card to read that made it sound as if a lagomorphic love goddess was about to walk across the stage. Deadly serious. They weren't too happy to see a more mature lady, with a few too many pounds, looking like a forced-retirement Playboy bunny (no soft-sculpture bunny mask, just the pair of ears, white leotard, gloves, and shoes). She tried to hit a pose, but the audience reaction wasn't too good. Not fun to watch. And *definitely* embarrassing. (My opinion, of course) I think that Hambly made a mistake in choosing to do Cutey Bunny, just as two very brave women made a mistake in attempting to costume Jessica Rabbit. With a character that's not easy to costume well, you have too rely too heavily on audience sympathy, unless you're going for the humorous (which none of them did.) --Kathy Li aka the Rev. Mom -- ___________________________________________________________________________ ...uunet!serene!kathyli | RADIO: You know it's twins? --Tom Stoppard, HAPGOOD From archive (archive) Path: sssab.se!isy!liuida!sunic!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!news From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Barbara Hambly Summary: Good stuff, but don't start with the Darwath books; they're bloated (also, a Hambly bibliography) Message-ID: <1990May12.220359.26815@athena.mit.edu> Date: 12 May 90 22:03:59 GMT References: <9005111812.AA29663@rutgers.edu> <7638@brazos.Rice.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Northeastern University Lines: 51 In-Reply-To: fi@whittaker.rice.edu (Fiona Oceanstar) In article <7638@brazos.Rice.edu>, Fiona Oceanstar said: > Having read all of Hambly, I ask of r.a.sf-l.-- is there anyone > else who is LIKE her? The details, the descriptions, the logic? > I don't have much hope, but hope does spring eternal... I also recommend Hambly fairly highly. A caveat, though -- I _don't_ recommend that people investigating her start out with her [arguably] most famous work, the Darwath trilogy. Imho, it's good but bloated; it should have been two books at most. Her later stuff is a lot more tightly written. What follows is the Hambly excerpt from the MIT Science Fiction Society's index of books we have in our collection; I _think_ it's a complete Hambly bibliography with the exception of a non-sf/fantasy murder mystery set in ancent Rome, called "Hunt the Seven Hills" (original title: "The Quirinal Hill Affair")... THE ARMIES OF DAYLIGHT [DARWATH 3] BEAUTY AND THE BEAST THE DARK HAND OF MAGIC [SUNWOLF AND STARHAWK 3] DRAGONSBANE ISHMAEL [STAR TREK] THE LADIES OF MANDRIGYN [SUNWOLF AND STARHAWK 1] THE SILENT TOWER [SILENT TOWER 1] THE SILICON MAGE [SILENT TOWER 2] THOSE WHO HUNT THE NIGHT THE TIME OF THE DARK [DARWATH 1] THE UNSCHOOLED WIZARD [SUNWOLF AND STARHAWK 1, 2] THE WALLS OF AIR [DARWATH 2] THE WITCHES OF WENSHAR [SUNWOLF AND STARHAWK 2] ("Unschooled Wizard" is an SFBC 2-in-1 omnibus edition.) I'd recommend starting with "Ladies of Mandrigyn," "Dragonsbane" or "Those Who Hunt the Night." By the way, "Ishmael" -- which is also a pretty good book, with a lot of good character development on Spock -- has the distinction of being the only known Star Trek/Here Come the Brides crossover novel in captivity. I think Ms. Hambly was inspired by the fact that Mark Lenard (who played Spock's father a few times on Strek) was a regular on HCtB. It's a lot of fun. -- William December Starr "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." -- Poul Anderson