So You Want to Be a Wizard の20周年記念版に収録された、このシリーズと世界観を共有する短編『アップタウン・ローカル』は元々は
ジェイン・ヨーレンのアンソロジー Dragons and Dreams に収録されたものである。
この短編はその後デュエインの公式サイトで無料公開され、更に20周年記念版にも収められるという経緯を経た。
2011年2月、デュエインはこのシリーズの最初の四巻の改訂版を出版する予定であることを予告した[3]。
She will be updating the technology used in the books, fixing some of the time line issues within the series, and overall making the series more appealing to the young adult reader of today.
The first of the series will be available on or around June 21, 2011 in ebook format, through the Diane Duane ebooks store, with eventual distribution at other outlets.[4] The next 3 books will follow over July and August 2011.
改訂版には旧版とは別のISBNが振られる予定であり
[5]。
with the publisher switching to the revised editions with new covers around the time the next book in the series is released.
The series focuses on cat-wizards, who maintain the worldgates that wizards use for travel between the sheaf of canonical universes. They take place in the same setting as the Young Wizards novels.
In December 2005, Duane proposed to her fans that they fund a third novel in the series, The Big Meow.[6] After funding the project via whole-book subscriptions, per-chapter threshold pledges,[7]merchandising,[8][9] "put something in the kitty" donations,[10] and $2,900 in challenge grants,[11][12][13][14]
デュエインは2年半以上の期間を費やして13章のうち7章までを書き上げたが、その続きは書かれることがないまま2011年2月にこのプロジェクトの終了が発表された
[15] and posted the remaining chapters for subscribers between then and the 15th.[16]。
『アダルト・ウィザーズ』
『ヤング・ウィザーズ』シリーズと世界観を共有する、大人の魔法使いの物語。
"Theobroma", featured in the fantasy short story collection Wizards, Inc. (November 2007)[17]
並行世界の作品
So You Want to Be a Wizard や To Visit the Queen で示されるように『ヤング・ウィザーズ』の作品世界は複数の並行世界を内包している。
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses (ISBN0-446-60983-8) is set in a sheaf of universes originally mentioned[要ページ番号] in Nita's studies in So You Want to Be a Wizard.
The Middle Kingdoms
Also known as the Tale of the Five, this high fantasy series has been awaiting completion since 1992.[いつ?] The books center on some of the same themes as her better-known Young Wizards series; those who wield the Blue Fire have many of the same responsibilities as the wizards and fight the same battle against entropy. In So You Want to Be a Wizard, Nita's wizardry manual is written by "Hearnssen", a reference to the protagonist of The Door Into Fire, Herewiss s'Hearn (son of Hearn), so it may be that the Middle Kingdoms are part of the same sheaf of universes as the Young Wizards setting. Adding to this, one interdimensional portal in The Door into Fire appears to open over New York City. Duane is working on the final volume.[いつ?]The Door into Fire and The Door into Shadow have an omnibus reprint called Tale of Five: The Sword and the Dragon. (ISBN978-1892065513)
The Door into Fire (1979)
The Door into Shadow (1984)
The Door into Sunset (1992)
The Door into Starlight (to be written)
Several short stories are set in the Middle Kingdoms:
Parting Gifts (1981) and its prequel The Span (1999) featuring Sirronde; Duane plans to write a middle novella and publish the three together as Sirronde's World.[18]Lior and the Sea (1985) is set in the world of the Middle Kingdoms, but not concerning any of the characters in the novels.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages. (2006). ISBN1-4165-2577-7 An omnibus of the first four Rihannsu novels, containing minor tweaks for consistency and reediting Swordhunt and Honor Blade into the originally-intended single novel.
Duane has recently[いつ?] made available in various e-formats a previously unpublished book which was sold to at least two European publishers, but never actually brought out due to internal restructuring at one publishing house (Corgi) and the sale of another (Heyne Verlag). The novel, A Wind from the South, is the first of a projected trilogy telling the story of a young girl born in the 11th century in a remote region of the Alps. This girl slowly discovers that she is the intended physical avatar of an exiled Roman goddess, while (as she grows) she becomes caught up in the political turmoil of William Tell's time.
Duane was also responsible for prose adaptations of several scripts from The Outer Limits. She has also written numerous short stories, about equally divided between fantasy and science fiction, which have appeared in various anthologies and collections over the last twenty years. She also wrote the 1985 text adventure video game Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative.[22]
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" So You Want to Be a Wizard" got the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers award, 1984
“Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize: Previous Winners”. 2007年4月11日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2007年7月11日閲覧。 “In addition to the prize-winning book, the Committee of judges issued a special commendation to the Young Wizard's series by Diane Duane "for its courage in tackling moral and emotional issues set on the frontiers of magic. In addition, the author's diverse worldview enhances the appeal of the series."”