A novelette of 12, 000 words, sequel to Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, and his partner the witch Jenny Waynest, are hired by a dragon to rescue a princess. The Princess had originally bargained with the dragon to carry her off (and split her father's treasure) rather than be forced to wed a Prince she didn't like... but demons showed up and the plan went horribly awry. John and Jenny must rescue the Princess, without getting double-crossed (and possibly killed) by the dragon.

Princess

For rising young lawyer Cal Griffin, it's just another day in the Big City -- until the lights go off ... for good. Suddenly packs of pale crouched figures are stalking the darkened subways, monsters prowl Times Square, and the people all around Cal are ... changing. Similar weirdness is happening everywhere, from the dank, cold heart of a West Virginia coal mine to a remote lab in South Dakota -- where a team of government scientists has unwittingly invited something catastrophic into the world -- to the highest levels of power in Washington, D. C. And Cal Griffin is not the only one struggling to comprehend the surreal, devouring chaos surrounding him -- nor the only one who will be forced to accept a new role in this brave new world of nightmare and wonder. For the forces bled from the stilled machines are fueling a consciousness both newly born and ancient -- and more than one unlikely hero will be needed for the titanic battle between the darkness and the light.

Magic Time

A novelette of 16, 000 words, sequel to Hambly's Darwath series. The wizards at the distant Keep of Black Rock have disappeared. Warrior woman Gil Patterson, the wizard Ingold Inglorion, and Ingold's pupil Rudy Solis set out to learn what happened to them - but only Gil manages to arrive at Black Rock Keep. Something caused the mages of Black Rock - and Ingold and Rudy, when they drew near to the half-ruined Keep - to lose their magic, before they disappeared, and Gil senses that something deeper and stranger still is going on. But whatever it is, she has to figure it out alone.

Dreamers of Black Rock

Chaque été, tel un lancinant refrain, la fièvre jaune s'attaque à la Nouvelle-Orléans. Comme un châtiment divin, le choléra frappe surtout les Blancs, souvent les riches... Là, plus de barrières entre les races... ou presque : Benjamin Janvier, musicien par nécessité, peut à cette funèbre occasion exercer son véritable métier, celui de chirurgien. Une profession qu'il n'a aucune chance de voir reconnue en temps normal en Louisiane : il est Noir... Dans ce monde étouffant, où l'on vit fenêtres et portes closes dans l'espoir d'enrayer l'épidémie, la fuite d'une esclave pourrait passer inaperçue. Mais Cora Chouteau n'appartient pas à n'importe qui : elle sert Mme Redfern, une des femmes les plus en vue de la ville. C'est dire que la réputation de cette dernière est en jeu. C'est dire que Janvier risque sa vie en prêtant main-forte à Cora. Face à l'honneur d'une dame, que pourrait en effet valoir l'existence d'un nègre, même libre ? Après L'innocence de Janvier, Barbara Hambly plonge à nouveau son héros dans un univers de faux-semblants...

Une saison de fièvres

Sequel to the Windrose series. The Personal Paradise Secure Community Corporation specializes in producing tiny enclave universes as vacation homes for the rich and famous. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with their Void technology and all these enclaves - and everyone in them - lose touch with the corporation's central control. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, are hired to find out what the problem is, and to bring the enclaves back, before the enclaves themselves collapse (killing everyone in them). And Joanna suspects that the corporate representatives have not told her and Antryg the whole truth of what the enclaves are, or how the problem appeared.

Personal Paradise

A Sherlock Holmes short story of 7, 300 words, narrated by Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson are in San Francisco, and find themselves defending a Chinese magician accused of kidnapping a little girl. Someone obviously intends for the magician to be lynched, and Holmes calls upon the aid of another magician, renowned prestidigitator and aeronaut Oscar Zoroaster Diggs - otherwise known as the Great and Powerful Oz.

Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman

A novelette of 14, 000 words, sequel to Hambly's Darwath series. The teleporter is due to open between the Keep of Dare and an unknown Keep, lost for three thousand years - and Archmage Ingold Inglorion is snowed in fifty miles away and unable to be there to deal with whatever might be on the other side of that teleporter. California warrior-woman Gil Patterson, and California mage-in-training Rudy Solis, have to explore the unknown Keep on their own: to interpret its secrets, to prevent whatever might lurk there from following them back to the last Keep of humankind... and to destroy it when, in spite of their efforts, it does.

Whisper

" Du gin, des gemmes et une vie étourdissante...
Chrysandra Flamande est la plus fastueuse des
vamps du grand écran. Dans le Los Angeles du
cinéma muet, elle a tout ce quelle désire - des amis éperdue d'admiration pour elle, des soirées brillantes, des distractions exotiques et plus de bijoux qu'elle ne peut en porter. Une belle vie
de star, jusqu'au jour où un vieux Chinois la
prévient que le joyau ancien quelle a porté lors
de son dernier triomphe cinématographique l'a
désignée comme la fiancée d'un dieu maléfique de
Mandchourie. Chris ne l'écoute évidemment pas - pas avant que des meurtres étranges soient commis autour d'elle, et que des traces de dents ne viennent ronger les fondations de la maison... Se pourrait-il que le dieu Rat soit réellement réveillé ?

La fiancée du dieu Rat

A short story in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color series. Rose Janvier, Benjamin's wife, is left at home in pre-Civil-War New Orleans when Benjamin goes off to solve a crime in another city. When the high-living brother of one of her neighbors is murdered, Rose uses her own detective skills to track down the killer, despite the fact that the white City Guards have arrested her and everyone else on the street as suspects.

A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven

Sequel to Hambly's Windrose Series. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, discover that a trans-dimensional monster is hiding somewhere in the vicinity of Los Angeles. They track it down to the now-deserted luxury "ranch" of a deceased 1970s glam-rock star known as The Daemon (real name Harold Nedwick), only to discover that the creature has been there much longer than anyone suspected, hidden in the maze at the center of the property - and that it is about to spawn.

Firemaggot

A short story about free man of color Benjamin January (of the Free Man of Color historical mystery series). In pre-Civil-War New Orleans, musician Benjamin January is tasked by his obnoxious mother to find the missing daughter of one of the city's free colored demi-monde - who may or may not have disappeared voluntarily. But if she was kidnapped, who did it, and how can she be rescued?

Libre

L'ultime bataille contre les Ténébreux va s'engager et, bientôt, Ingold Inglorion pourra renvoyer Gil Patterson et Rudy Solis dans notre monde, en Californie. À moins que l'un ou l'autre d'entre eux ne meure avant. Ce qui est d'autant plus probable que les Ténébreux ne sont pas leurs seuls ennemis : entre l'Évêque Govannin, le Chancelier Alwir et les représentants de l'empereur d'Alketch, nombreux sont ceux qui souhaitent les voir disparaître. Le sort de Darwath est pourtant plus que jamais entre leurs mains.

Le cycle de Darwath Tome 3 ; les armées du jour

Sequel to the Sun Wolf and Starhawk series. While her wizard partner Sun Wolf is away, warrior woman Starhawk gets a message from the band of mercenaries which Sun Wolf used to lead, and to which Starhawk once belonged. The mercenaries are beseiging a city, and are being attacked by a creature they're pretty sure is magic - despite the fact that nearly every wizard in the world was killed a century ago. Sun Wolf, born with the powers of a wizard, doesn't know how to use them; Starhawk is torn between finding a wizard to instruct him, and saving the lives of her former friends.

A Night With the Girls

A whirlwind fantasy classic set in the richest world imaginable, with unforgettable characters and the highest stakes - The Armies of Daylight is the third and final book in Barbara Hambly's epic Darwath Trilogy.

 Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste.

 The wizards have been slaughtered, cities destroyed, and people have scattered in terror.

 Few have witnessed more of the destruction than Rudy and Gil - two ordinary Californians who found their way across the Void, and took up arms in defence of a strange and magical world. She learned the ways of war, while he found within himself the powers of a great wizard. Both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart.

 Finally, Rudy, Gil, and the rest of mankind's survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse.

The Armies of Daylight

Barbara Hambly, née le 28 août 1951 à San Diego aux États-Unis, est une écrivaine américaine de fantasy et de science-fiction.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hambly

Livres