Young Wizards
Cover of So You Want to Be a Wizard, the first book in the series
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| Author | Diane Duane |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature, fantasy, science fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press; Corgi; Harcourt Children's Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Published | 1983-present |
| No. of books | 10 |
Young Wizards is a series of novels by Diane Duane.
The Young Wizards series presently consists of ten books, focusing on the adventures of two young wizards named Nita and Kit. Each novel pits Nita and Kit against the "Lone Power", an entity ultimately bent on the destruction of the entire universe. The series began in 1983 with the book So You Want to Be a Wizard, which told the story of their first experiences with wizardry. In 1997, Duane began a spin-off, the Feline Wizards series, which takes place in the same universe, but with different protagonists.
This series incorporates elements of fantasy, science fiction, and religion. The series deals with issues such as death, sacrifice, and redemption.
A short story within the same universe, "Uptown Local", was originally published as part of Jane Yolen's Dragons and Dreams anthology; it has also been included in the 20th anniversary edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard and as part of an ebook, Uptown Local and Other Interventions.
Interim Errantry is a collection of three stories set between A Wizard of Mars and Games Wizards Play: The Hallowe'en novella "Not on My Patch," the Christmas novelette "How Lovely Are Thy Branches," and the novel Lifeboats.
A short story "Not on My Patch" was released in October 2011. The story was scheduled to be published together with other short stories in late 2012 in a one-story-per-month anthology entitled The Wizards’ Year.
On February 2, 2016, Duane released the tenth novel in the series, Games Wizards Play, involving a tournament called "The Invitational", where hundreds of wizards compete all-out for a year long apprenticeship under Earth's 'Planetary Wizard'.
The official title of book 12 has yet to be released, but in a 2012 interview with GeekDads, Diane Duane used the working title, Wizardry in Shadow.
Three other books are not strictly in the Young Wizards series, but take place in the same setting:
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