cc-30@cory.BERKELEY.EDU (Sean "Yoda" Rouse) (02/13/86)
Here's the lastest stuff on Diane Duane's work.
She has finished her third "Door" novel, "Wizard" novel, and Thieves'
World stories. They're due to come out "soon." The protagonist of the third
door novel is Freelorn, and she's toying with making Sunspark the protagonist
of the fourth. (The "five" in 'Tale of the Five' are Herewiss, Freelorn,
Segnbora, Hasai and Sunspark) She also mentioned something about Hasai being
pregnant. (?!!!!)
Diane Duane also mentioned that she's writing another wizard novel that
has an adult heroine. She's a television reporter who has let her wizard
practice slide for a while, but suddenly wakes up one day to find herself on
active duty with stuff to take care of inbetween the interview and the
garden party. Her cameraman is her quasi-apprentice. She said it was going
to be weird.
The third Wizard novel (I forgot to ask for a title) has Nita's little
sister Dairine as the main character. She takes off for Mars from the lady's
room of one of those big New York Museums. (Forgive this Southern-Californian
view of the East Coast, I have a lousy memory for details.) To give you an
idea of what this book will be like, Diane Duane mentioned the following two
scenes:
Nita goes to Tom Swale when her little sister goes missing.
"Did she mention where she was going?" says Swale.
"She said something about going to find Darth Vader ...
And your first instinct is to feel sorry for Darth Vader.
Dairine has been through alien ports, and slimy things with tentacles
and guns and nastiness have been chasing her all along. She's very nearly{
overloaded. She ducks into a bar trying to find a back way out. There isn't
one, and then this hand falls down on her shoulder. She shrieks at the top
of her lungs, and whirls around to find herself faced with a tall, blonde
man. Normal-looking, with a coat that has "?"s on the lapels. (Reminds you
of "My Enemy, My Ally", don't it?)...
In case you're unfamiliar with the wizard novels, "So YOu Want to Be
A Wizard?" and "Deep Wizardry", take heart. They're due to come out in
paperback by the end of the year. But you may have to search through the
juveniles section in the bookstore.
Duane also said that she probably won't be doing anything with the
comic book for a while, because of the editorial change on the book, and
that there are no Star Trek novels on the near horizon, although she has
been approached to due a Romulan history/culture type of work, similar
to the Romulan Dictionary. Nothing definite. She also said something offhand
about how issue #28 of the comic book would be about Dr. McCoy and was
entirely crazed.
She's signed the contract for the fourth Door book, and she should
be finished with it next year, sometime.
She also mentioned a new computer game coming out (in which she
gleefully ignores anything Paramount has to say) dealing with Star Trek.
The rest of this article isn't news, it's just miscellaneous junk I picked
up during out conversation.
Chris Claremont has finally turned in his novel. There was also
mention of Dairine's being an extensive X-Men fan saving her in certain
situations.
(Boast time!!) She also mentioned that I was the first to pick up
on the author of the Wizard's manual being "Hearnssen" (Herewiss, Hearn's
Son...).
She's unmarried, has never been married, and is an expert cat tail-
cracker.
I also discovered one more work that wasn't on my completeist
list, which is a short story in an anthology. "Midnight Snack". The book
is something weird, like "Sixteen Short Stories For Young People by
Modern Authors." Duane mentioned that this story is the first time she
ever set out to write a killer first line. (the line is :"Dad came down
with the flu last Tuesday, so I had to go down the subway to feed the
unicorns.")
Anyways, that's about all I can remember from off the top of
my head. I hope this has been of some use to someone.
--Kathy Li
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