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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.
 
In addition to her self-originated work she has written three [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novels (''Ishmael'', ''Ghost-Walker'' and ''Crossroad''), two [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novels (the first and third books in [[The Callista Trilogy]]), and two tie-in novels for the ''[[Beauty and Thethe Beast (TV series)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' TV series, as well as episodes of ''[[Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors (Animation)|Jayce and Thethe Wheeled Warriors]]'' and ''[[Centurions (Animation)|Centurions]]''. She also collaborated on the first ''[[Magic Time (Literature)|Magic Time]]'' novel with the franchise's creator, Marc Scott Zicree.
 
On the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Realism]], her works tend to be a ways off from the Idealistic end. The heroes are good people, but realistically complex and possessed of human imperfections, and they often face large and complicated problems that can't be solved simply by smiting monsters. And when it comes to monsters, the fanged squamous horrors are often given a run for their money by some of the human beings.
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=== Works by Barbara Hambly with their own trope pages include: ===
 
* ''[[Benjamin January (Literature)|Benjamin January]]'' series
* ''[[Those Who Hunt the Night (Literature)|Those Who Hunt the Night]]'' series
 
=== Barbara Hambly's other works include examples of: ===
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: ''Dragonsbane'' goes into some detail about how incredibly difficult it is to kill a dragon. John uses tactics that Gareth finds appalling (including shredding the dragon's wings with poisoned harpoons), but John knows that trying to fight a dragon "honorably" is pure suicide.
* [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]:
** Antryg Windrose is basically [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Fourth Doctor]] as a wizard. Reportedly, Hambly even said she mentally cast him as played by [[Tom Baker]]. Certainly she describes him to a 'T'.
** Ingold Inglorion is very obviously the late Sir Alec Guiness as [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan Kenobi]], brown robes, beautiful voice and all.
** According to her official web site, the leads of ''Stranger at the Wedding'' are [[Katharine Hepburn]] and Spencer Tracy.
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