Diane Duane
The Young Wizards series, Diane Duane's fantasy sequence for younger readers, stands as the work most consistently associated with her name. The series follows young protagonists who encounter wizardry and represents a sustained contribution to children's fantasy fiction across multiple volumes.
Duane was born on 18 May 1952 in New York City and educated at Dowling College. A citizen of the United States, she has been long based in Ireland. Her writing career spans several forms and genres: she works as a novelist, screenwriter, comics writer, blogger, and children's writer, producing fiction in both fantasy and science fiction, all written in American English.
Beyond the Young Wizards sequence, Duane is also associated with the Rihannsu novels, a series of Star Trek books. Together, the Young Wizards series and the Rihannsu novels represent the two bodies of work most directly tied to her name in the facts of record, with both series placing her across the fantasy and science fiction genres that have defined her career as a writer.
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As I said, wear flats. No point in injuring them with heels while they’re abasing themselves.
At any rate, after five years Surak came out of the wilds, took a small apartment in the capital, near his parents’ house, and began to write for the information networks.
Even in your world, people have died for words. Sometimes they’ve died of them. One learns to be careful what one says in such a world. And like anything so powerful, like any weapon, words cut both ways. They redeem and betray – sometimes both at once. The attribute we name as a virtue may also turn out to be our bane. So we watch what we call things – in case we should turn out to be right.
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?
Not even Spock had stayed aboard for that – he found breathing vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically unpleasant.
This is why one must be careful with life,” her father had said, in very controlled wrath. “Death is the most hateful thing. Don’t allow the destruction of what you can never restore.
We knew you were hurting,” Gelert said. “But sometimes – that idiom about being there for somebody, actually just means to be there. Doing anything, saying anything, sometimes you know it’ll hurt them worse than just being quiet, and being close.
With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired.” “Spock,” McCoy said gently, “your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we’re all going to be blown to hell.” Spock hesitated, then nodded.