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* SissyVillain: Prince Pharos is described in ways that imply the reader is meant to find him extra-evil and repulsive because not only is he a sadist, he's a dainty, high-voiced, makeup-wearing DepravedHomosexual sadist.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: The "spell of tongues" -- which [[spoiler: doesn't work over the telephone]].
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* {{Expy}}: Antryg, a CrazyAwesome RebelliousSpirit MadHatter renegade meddler who can wonder between worlds and is described to look a lot like Tom Baker? It's the Fourth Doctor, down to the speech patterns and {{Character Tic}}s.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Antryg Windrose is basically [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]] as a wizard. Reportedly, Hambly even said she mentally cast him as played by TomBaker. Certainly she describes him to a 'T'.
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* SinglePreceptReligion: The generic "The Church" has no visible theology other than "wizards are evil", and no connection with the real life of the people, and no discernible purpose beyond making people, and especially Our Heroes, miserable.
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* TheCassandra: Antryg Windrose uses Holmes-ish deductive reasoning to figure out things that everyone else then assumes only the villain could know. Between that and his checkered past, he's ''never'' believed by anyone in a position of authority -- and on the rare occasions when this is not true, he winds up being banned, banished and locked up anyway for telling [[BearerOfBadNews truths people don't want to hear]].
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''The Windrose Chronicles'' is a fantasy series by Creator/BarbaraHambly in which Joanna Sheraton, a computer programmer from California, gets tangled up in the affairs of wizards from another world, including an eccentric wizard named Antryg Windrose.
It consists of the novels ''The Silent Tower'', ''The Silicon Mage'', and ''Dog Wizard'', and several short stories.
!!This series provides examples of:
* TheArchmage: The Archmage is the leader of all wizards in Ferryth. His authority magically moves to another wizard on his death.
* BrainUploading: How the Silicon Mage intends to cheat death.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Antryg Windrose is basically [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]] as a wizard. Reportedly, Hambly even said she mentally cast him as played by TomBaker. Certainly she describes him to a 'T'.
* CorruptChurch: The Empire of Ferryth has a generic "The Church" that has no discernible reason for existing other than to make Our Heroes miserable, as it has no connection with the real life of the rest of the population, and no visible theology other than "wizards are evil". (It gets a more nuanced depiction in ''Literature/StrangerAtTheWedding'', at least.)
* FirstContactMath: In ''The Silicon Mage'', Antryg and Joanna communicate with an extra-dimensional via pi and Planck's Constant.
* FunctionalMagic: Mages possess an inherent gift, which must then be developed with training in Rule Magic.
* LowFantasy
* TheMadHatter: Antryg Windrose is very charismatically eccentric, has a reputation for being "dangerously insane", and in deep characterization confesses that he really is mad, from long years of having to sustain beliefs contrary to the reality of others around him.
* SarcasticConfession: When, in ''Dog Wizard'', a wizard from another world is exiled to San Francisco and joins a dojo to keep up his sword fighting skills, he explains that his technique may be a bit unique as he is a wizard in exile from another world.
* TranslatorMicrobes: The "spell of tongues" -- which [[spoiler: doesn't work over the telephone]].
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Joanna.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Inverted in ''Dog Wizard'', where a wizard exposits this flaw in the "spell of tongues". Later, when an alien has stated that his equipment can keep everybody safe for only two hours, he's startled when the heroine comments that time is almost up 100 minutes later -- it's not even been one "hour" as far as he's concerned.
* YourUniverseOrMine: Joanna eventually faces this question. [[spoiler:He settles in California with her.]]
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It consists of the novels ''The Silent Tower'', ''The Silicon Mage'', and ''Dog Wizard'', and several short stories.
!!This series provides examples of:
* TheArchmage: The Archmage is the leader of all wizards in Ferryth. His authority magically moves to another wizard on his death.
* BrainUploading: How the Silicon Mage intends to cheat death.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Antryg Windrose is basically [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]] as a wizard. Reportedly, Hambly even said she mentally cast him as played by TomBaker. Certainly she describes him to a 'T'.
* CorruptChurch: The Empire of Ferryth has a generic "The Church" that has no discernible reason for existing other than to make Our Heroes miserable, as it has no connection with the real life of the rest of the population, and no visible theology other than "wizards are evil". (It gets a more nuanced depiction in ''Literature/StrangerAtTheWedding'', at least.)
* FirstContactMath: In ''The Silicon Mage'', Antryg and Joanna communicate with an extra-dimensional via pi and Planck's Constant.
* FunctionalMagic: Mages possess an inherent gift, which must then be developed with training in Rule Magic.
* LowFantasy
* TheMadHatter: Antryg Windrose is very charismatically eccentric, has a reputation for being "dangerously insane", and in deep characterization confesses that he really is mad, from long years of having to sustain beliefs contrary to the reality of others around him.
* SarcasticConfession: When, in ''Dog Wizard'', a wizard from another world is exiled to San Francisco and joins a dojo to keep up his sword fighting skills, he explains that his technique may be a bit unique as he is a wizard in exile from another world.
* TranslatorMicrobes: The "spell of tongues" -- which [[spoiler: doesn't work over the telephone]].
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Joanna.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Inverted in ''Dog Wizard'', where a wizard exposits this flaw in the "spell of tongues". Later, when an alien has stated that his equipment can keep everybody safe for only two hours, he's startled when the heroine comments that time is almost up 100 minutes later -- it's not even been one "hour" as far as he's concerned.
* YourUniverseOrMine: Joanna eventually faces this question. [[spoiler:He settles in California with her.]]
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