“Even without the high angle of a few moments ago to give the Sun something to reflect from, there was no mistaking the small, angular shape hunkered down against the rising ground in the near distance, its little camera pole sticking up…
…there was no use kicking up more dust on the hardworking little machine- it had more than enough trouble with what the winter dust storms left layered on its solar panels. The scientists at NASA had for the past couple of years been surprised and pleased that the Spirit and Opportunity rovers had managed to keep working for so long: mostly, they theorized, because of passing dust devils that blew the accumulated storm dust off them. The wizards who came up here every now and then with cans of compressed air and puffer brushes while the probes were asleep were delighted to let the scientists think that- and careful not to remove enough dust at any one time as to make them suspicious.”
-Diane Duane @dduane, A Wizard of Mars
goodnight moon. goodnight Milky Way. goodnight Ursa Major (UMa I dSph). goodnight 24IC 1613 (UGC 662.350[8].
rebloging from my main blog.
And I don’t want to lose you, cousins, so I’ve made us a Lifeboat, if you will.
https://discord.gg/83Fz8KM
I’ve never heard of us having a discord server, but if an established one already exists, please someone link me.
A number of people have suggested it over the last while... and finally I thought "WTF, why not?"
So if folks want to contribute to what's going on around here without buying ebooks, here's a way! ...And if you're in the UK and have been feeling annoyed by not being able to assist in that way, well, here's an option for you, as Ko-Fi doesn't care about Brexit in the slightest.
(And thanking all of you in advance, for those of you who choose to support.)
...This setup isn't particularly customized as yet. I really need to get a page banner sorted out, and do some other stuff. Give me a week or so and it'll probably have wizards and dragons all over it. :)
...Anyway, thanks again to those who suggested this.
I’m pretty sure that “writing a strongly worded letter to the laws of thermodynamics” is my new favorite description of wizardry.
“But then she was a dancer. Dancers are tough.” -“The Wizard’s Dilemma,” Diane Duane, (x) (x) Dedicated to Betty Callahan.
Inside a Neutron Star
Credit: Karl Tate, via SPACE.com
(cont) Are these timeline issues fixed in the New Millennium Editions? And if you have a corrected timeline, could you post it here? Thank you!
Fixing the timeline issues was one of the main purposes of the NMEs. So I think it’s safe to say that yes, those issues have been fixed.
No, I don’t have a timeline as such. The general progression of the New Millennium editions, though, is given in the “time fix” at the start of each book. So it goes like this:
So You Want to Be a Wizard: May 2008
Deep Wizardry: July 2008
High Wizardry: August 2008
A Wizard Abroad: Mid-July through early August, 2009
The Wizard’s Dilemma: Late September, 2009
A Wizard Alone: January 2010
Wizard’s Holiday: April 2010
Wizards at War: Late April / early May 2010
A Wizard of Mars: Late June 2010
…Hope that helps. :)
Just a quick reminder that the "All The Wizardry" bundle is still available at Ebooks Direct! (Curiosity rover not included...) :)
Contains nineteen DRM-free ebooks:
The nine New Millennium Editions of the main-sequence Young Wizards novels
The Feline Wizardry trilogy
The two collections of interstitial fiction: Interim Errantry and Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal
The only two Young Wizards short stories (as the title item and "Theobroma" in Uptown Local and Other Interventions
The non main-sequence novel Young Wizards: Lifeboats and the standalone novella Owl Be Home For Christmas (These last two works are included as independent ebook volumes even though they also appear in the Interim Errantry collections.)
The "CD extras" work The "How Lovely Are Thy Branches" Advent Calendar, featuring outtake dialogue from How Lovely Are Thy Branches (which appears in Interim Errantry)
The Young Wizards OTP Challenge, Days 1-17: short fiction in the OTP format
...And as always, should you misplace any of these, or need to change platforms, we'll replace them for you free! Details here.
So stop in and grab yourself an armful of wizardry!
(For our UK friends, the normal sad caveat: we can't sell directly to you from the Ebooks Direct store any more due to Brexit. Our apologies.) :(
Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretch 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a light quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous Galactic Nulcei powered by supermassive central black holes.
A personal temporospatial claudication for Young Wizards fandom-related posts and general space nonsense.
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