Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane

[meganbmoore]

I read Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard? about two years ago and loved it. Granted, I was possibly at least partly seduced by the library and how much books factored into the plot and how books and reading were important. I’m the sort of person who pulls out Mirrormask just to rewatch the part about the library, after all.

Deep Wizardry

Comments

[gleckia]

It has been a long time since I read both of the books, but I do remember having a similar reaction.

SYWTBAW is the stronger book. I should do a re-read and then get on with the rest of them. When I read the books, she had only written the two.

[meganbmoore]

It's that pesky "humans bad, nature better" thing. I get where they're coming from with it, usually, but...

[gleckia]

Also concider when those two books were written. SYWTBAW-1983 DW 1985

The entrance of the moral majority.

Reagan's appointment of two very non-enviromentaly appointees to the department of the Interior and the EPA.

The fear of Nuclear Power and Weapons.

The cold war. The fear that either of the two players would "hit the big red button" and make the whole world unlivable in their quest to destroy each other.

[meganbmoore]

Yup. It's why I'm a lot more forgiving of those things than I would be normally.

[dropsofviolet]

Hmm, well I'm not sure how you'll feel about High Wizardry (the third book) because it mainly stars Nita's sister, Dairine, in the title role, and the focus is on technology and life-- how many varieties of life there are, how alive technology can be, etc. It's better than Deep Wizardry and the 4th book, but the 5th and 6th books are very, very good in my opinion. I love this series.

[meganbmoore]

I liked Dairine.

I've heard things across the board about the individual books in the series. They seem to appeal to different people in different ways.

[sienamystic]

Yeah, I think the books play off differently. I love the first one, absolutely adore the second one (mostly because I really love Ed) and was bored by the third one. I'm still reading them, but I don't know if any of the more recent ones are as strong as the first two.

[redbrunja]

Frankly, to me, her books are wildly uneven. I loved SYWTBAW, was entertained by DW and HATED HW mainly because I really hated how Nita's already super-special sister got even more super special.

A Wizard Abroad is excellent, iirc, and then the next two are less good.