(1952- ) US author, most respected for her work in Fantasy. She is married to fantasy author Peter Morwood (1956- ), with whom she has collaborated on several books. She began writing fantasies with the Epic Tale of the Five sequence – The Door into Fire (1979) and The Door into Shadow (1984), both assembled as Tale of Five: The Sword and the Dragon (omni 2002), and later extended with The Door into Sunset (1992); the overall story continued with the Wizard Sequence/ Nita & Kit, beginning with So You Want to Be a Wizard (1983).
As opposed to her fantasy work, which has always been written in her own right, her work of sf interest consists primarily of a wide range of Ties, most prominently her contributions to various Star Trek worlds, beginning with Star Trek: The Wounded Sky (1983), in the original Star Trek sequence; the Star Trek: Rihannsu sequence, beginning with My Enemy, My Ally (1984); and some titles for Star Trek: The Next Generation, beginning with Star Trek, the Next Generation: Dark Mirror (1993). Other Ties include Space Cops titles, beginning with Space Cops: Mindblast (1991) with Peter Morwood, seaQuest DSV: The Novel (1993; vt seaQuest DSV 1993) with Peter Morwood, based on the pilot for the seaQuest television series, Spider-Man titles, beginning with Spider-Man: The Venom Factor (1994) and the Harbinger Trilogy in the Star*Drive Role Playing Game universe (see Alternity). In her non-tie singleton, the Near Future Omnitopia Dawn (2010), a Game owner and operator is faced with complex Virtual Reality intrigues when his plans to expand his Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game are co-opted by pirates. In 2014 she received the Grandmaster Scribe Award for career achievement in media Ties. [JC]
see also: Worldcon.
Diane Elizabeth Duane
born New York: 18 May 1952
died
works
series
Star Trek
Star Trek: Rihannsu
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Space Cops
seaQuest DSV
- seaQuest DSV: The Novel (New York: Ace Books, 1993) with Peter Morwood [tie: novelizing the film: seaQuest DSV: pb/]
- seaQuest DSV (London: Millennium, 1993) with Peter Morwood [tie: vt of the above: novelizing the film: seaQuest DSV: hb/]
Spider-Man
X-Com
X-Men
Star*Drive/Harbinger Trilogy
Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers
These works are all Ties to the Tom Clancy concept.
individual titles
fantasy (selected)
series
Epic Tale of the Five
Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit
- So You Want to Be a Wizard (New York: Delacorte, 1983) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Davie Wiesner]
- Deep Wizardry (New York: Delacorte, 1985) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Neal McPheeters]
- High Wizardry (New York: Delacorte, 1990) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Neal McPheeters]
- Support Your Local Wizard (New York: Guild of America Books, 1983) [omni of the above three: Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Mark Ferrari]
- A Wizard Abroad (London: Corgi Books, 1993) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: pb/Tim White]
- The Wizard's Dilemma (New York: Harcourt, 2001) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
- The Young Wizards (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2001) [omni of the above five: Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Yvonne Gilbert]
- A Wizard Alone (New York: Harcourt, 2002) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
- Wizard's Holiday (New York: Harcourt, 2003) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
- Wizards at War (New York: Harcourt, 2005) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
- A Wizard of Mars (New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 2010) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
- Young Wizards: Lifeboats (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: pb/]
- Interim Errantry: Three Tales of the Young Wizards (place not given: Errantry Press, 2015) [coll: includes Young Wizards: Lifeboats above: Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: pb/]
- Games Wizards Play (New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 2016) [Wizard Sequence/Nita & Kit: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
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