Series
The Windrose Chronicles
Barbara Hambly · 4 novels · 5 novelettes · 1986–2015
The Windrose Chronicles is Barbara Hambly's fantasy quartet, opening with The Silent Tower and continuing through The Silicon Mage and the Locus Award-nominated Dog Wizard (Del Rey, 1993). Hambly, known for setting much of her fantasy and science fiction inside an explicit multiverse rather than one fixed world, extended the series with the later, more loosely connected Stranger at the Wedding. The core trilogy follows the same cast across all three books rather than functioning as standalone entries.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Windrose Chronicles 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
- 1980s2
- 1990s2
- 2000s0
- 2010s5
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Silicon Magedarkest · calmest
- The Silent Towerbrightest
- Dog Wizardmost intense