Sun-Cross Books in Order

The Sun-Cross books follow the wizard Rhion and take Hambly's interest in worlds linked by the Void in a darker direction. These novels are about crossing between realities, but they are also about power, history, and what happens when someone trained in one moral and magical system lands somewhere utterly different.

The first book lays groundwork in Rhion's own world, with its politics, loyalties, and burdens of training. The second makes a hard turn by bringing magic into direct contact with twentieth-century history. That move gives the duology its real identity. Hambly is not content with a simple other-world quest. She wants to see what a wizard makes of modern cruelty, ideology, and mechanized power.

These books are thoughtful, tense, and often bleak in a purposeful way. Rhion is not a swaggering hero. He is intelligent, vulnerable, and forced to keep reinterpreting everything he thought he understood. If you like portal fantasy that becomes historical nightmare and asks serious questions about power, Sun-Cross is well worth a look.