The Windrose Chronicles (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Hambly
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—high fantasy
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s and the fourth year of the Regency of Prince Pharos
- Setting: Los Angeles, California, and the Empire of Ferryth
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Magic or magicians, Immortality, Other worlds, 1980’s, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Mental illness, Computers, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Mythical lands
The Plot
The Windrose Chronicles can best be described as two books and a sequel. The Silent Tower, which begins the quest of Joanna Sheraton and Antryg Windrose to find and eliminate the evil Darkmage, Suraklin, ends in one of the most spectacular cliff- hangers in fantasy literature. The action continues less than a month later in The Silicon Mage. The two books were combined in an omnibus volume titled Darkmage (1988). Despite a fairly firm sense of closure at the end of The Silicon Mage, the story of Joanna and her mad lover, Antryg, resumes four...
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