Barbara Hambly Quote

We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away.

Barbara Hambly

We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away.

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About Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction.
She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.
Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings (notably as established by Star Trek and Star Wars).