Series
Darwath
Barbara Hambly · 5 novels · 2 novelettes · 1982–2015
Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground. The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, and The Armies of Daylight make up the original trilogy; Barbara Hambly returned to the same characters decades later in Mother of Winter and Icefalcon's Quest. It's portal fantasy built around practical, unglamorous survival rather than chosen-one heroics.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Darwath at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s3
- 1990s2
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
Shape
5 novels · 2 novelettes
1 author
reads like:fantasysurvivalsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Armies of Daylightdarkest · calmest
- Icefalcon's Questbrightest
- Mother of Wintermost intense