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name of Barbara
Hamilton.
    Professor Hambly also teaches History
part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her
on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.
    Now a widow, she shares a house in Los
Angeles with several small carnivores.
    She very much hopes you will enjoy these
stories.

 
     
     
    The Further
Adventures
    by Barbara Hambly
     
     
    The concept of “happily ever after” has
always fascinated me.
    Just exactly what happens after, “happily
ever after”?
    The hero/heroine gets the person of his/her
dreams, and rides off into the sunset with their loved one perched
on the back of the horse hanging onto saddlebags stuffed with gold.
(It’s a very strong horse.)
    So what happens then? Where do they live? Who
does the cooking?
    This was one of the reasons I started writing
The Further Adventures.
    The other was that so many of the people who
loved the various fantasy series that I wrote for Del Rey in the
1980s and ‘90s, really liked the characters. I liked those
characters too, and I missed writing about them.
    Thus, in 2009 I opened a corner of my website
and started selling stories about what happened to these characters
after the closing credits rolled on the last novel of each
series.
    The Darwath series centers on the Keep of
Dare, where the survivors of humankind attempt to re-build their
world in the face of an ice age winter, after the destruction of
civilization by the Dark Ones. Ingold the Wizard is assisted by two
stray Southern Californians, Gil Patterson - a historian who is now
part of the Keep Guards - and Rudy Solis, in training to be a
mage.
    The Unschooled Wizard stories involve the
former mighty-thewed barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf, who finds
himself unexpectedly endowed with wizardly powers. Because the evil
Wizard King sought out and killed every trained wizard a hundred
years ago, Sun Wolf has no teacher to instruct him in his powers.
With his former second-in-command, the warrior woman Starhawk, he
must seek one - and hope whatever wizard he finds isn’t evil,
too.
    In the Winterlands tales, scholarly
dragonslayer John Aversin and his mageborn partner Jenny Waynest do
their best to protect the people of their remote villages from
whatever threats come along: dragons, bandits, fae spirits, and
occasionally the misguided forces of the distant King.
    Antryg Windrose is the archmage of the
Council of Wizards in his own dimension, exiled for misbehavior -
meddling in the affairs of the non-mageborn - to Los Angeles in the
1980s (that’s when the novels were written). He lives with a young
computer programmer, Joanna Sheraton, and keeps a wary eye on the
Void between Universes, to defend this world from whatever might
come through.
    Though out of print, all four of these series
are available digitally on-line.
    To these have been added short stories about
the characters from the Benjamin January historical mystery series,
set in New Orleans before the Civil War. As a free man of color,
Benjamin has to solve crimes while constantly watching his own back
lest he be kidnapped and sold as a slave. New Orleans in the 1830s
was that kind of town. In the novels he is assisted by his
schoolmistress wife Rose, and his good-for-nothing white buddy
Hannibal; two of the four Further Adventures concerning January are
in fact about what Rose does while Benjamin is out of town.
    I have always been an enthusiastic fan of the
Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the years I
have been asked to contribute stories to various Sherlock Holmes
anthologies, and when the character went into Public Domain, I
added these four stories to my collection.
    Quest For Glory is a stand-alone, a
short piece I wrote for the program book at a science fiction
convention at which I was Guest of Honor.
    Sunrise on Running Water is tenuously
connected to the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series, in that Don Simon
makes a brief cameo appearance. After seeing the movie Titanic - and reflecting that