GM: My local library keeps So You Want to Be a Wizard in the juvenile/children's section. Other than that, she pretty much gets on with her life and I get on with mine. Nita and I share a continual interest in the sciences in general, and astronomy in particular. Not many InRealLife people have seen my temper flare, which is probably all for the best. Part of this is naturally due to my nursing training, especially the psychiatric nursing part: flying off the handle whenever you feel like it is not OK. Most notably, Nita and I both have a hot temper, but she gets to express hers far more freely than I ever allow myself to. GM: Would you say there's something of yourself in Nita Callahan? DD: Oh, yeah. The way things are at the end of book 3 makes it plain that though there's a new hope for the universe, the wizards' work of beating Evil when they can, managing or containing it when they must, and always, always trying to turn it, is going to be going on for a lot of weary aeons yet. There's a misapprehension here and there among readers and reviewers that I intended for there only to be three, High Wizardry being the last in the sequence, but this isn't so. GM: Did you always plan for it to be a series? DD: I think I may not have been clear about that when I was working on SYWTBAW proper, but when I finished it I knew there would be more, though I had no clear idea how many. Kirk struggle to preserve the very future of the Federation, the innermost secrets of the planet Vulcan are laid before us, from its beginnings millions of years ago to its savage prehistory, from merciless tribal warfare to medieval court intrigue, from the exploration of space to the development of c'thia - the ruling ethic of logic.Īnd Spock - torn between his duty to Starfleet and the unbreakable ties that bind him to Vulcan - must find a way to reconcile both his own inner conflict and the external dilemma his planet faces.lest the Federation itself be ripped asunder.All the plots of all the books in the series – when reduced to their LCDs – are based on the existence of the Manual, and what its existence implies about the universe in which it appears. As Commander Spock, his father Sarek, and Captain James T. On the planet Vulcan, a crisis of unprecedented proportions has caused the convocation of the planet's ruling council - and summoned the USS Enterprise from halfway across the galaxy, to bring Vulcan's most famous son home in its hour of need. Of Earth, whose history is an open book… and of Vulcan, whose secrets have lain hidden beneath its burning sands… Until now." '"I am Spock… I hold the rank of commander in the Starfleet of the United Federation of Planets I serve as first officer of the starship Enterprise.
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