Diane Duane

The Door into Fire and The Door into Shadow have an omnibus reprint called Tale of Five: The Sword and the Dragon. (ISBN 978-1892065513)

Several short stories are set in the Middle Kingdoms:

Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, long based in Ireland.

Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.

Born in New York City, she grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island.

After school, she studied nursing and practiced as a psychiatric nurse for two years until 1976, when she moved to California and worked as an assistant to David Gerrold.

Her first novel was published by Dell Books in 1979; Gerrold wrote an "overture" to that novel, on the grounds that he'd rather be making overtures than introductions to Duane.

She subsequently worked as a freelance writer.

In 1981 she moved to Pennsylvania.

Parting Gifts (1981) and its prequel The Span (1999) featuring Sirronde; Duane plans to write a middle novella and publish the three together as Sirronde's World.

Lior and the Sea (1985) is set in the world of the Middle Kingdoms, but not concerning any of the characters in the novels.

Duane also worked on Tales of the Five, a five-book series to bridge the gap between The Door into Sunset and The Door into Starlight.

Books in this series so far are:

Duane has also written a number of Star Trek novels:

Duane also shares story credit on the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before" with Michael Reaves.

The Harbinger Trilogy, published by Wizards of the Coast, is set in the Star*Drive universe.

While Duane is not the only author to write for this universe, she was the first.

She married Northern Irish author Peter Morwood in 1987; they moved to the United Kingdom and then to Ireland, where they reside in Grangecon, County Wicklow.

A short story within the same universe, "Uptown Local", has also been published as part of Jane Yolen's Dragons and Dreams anthology, and a podcast of Duane reading it is freely available from her website.

It also appears in the twentieth anniversary edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard.

Also known as the Tale of the Five, this high fantasy series was paused in 1992.

The books center on some of the same themes as her better-known Young Wizards series; those who wield the Blue Fire have many of the same responsibilities as the wizards and fight the same battle against entropy.

In So You Want to Be a Wizard, Nita's wizardry manual is written by "Hearnssen", a reference to the protagonist of The Door Into Fire, Herewiss s'Hearn (son of Hearn), so it may be that the Middle Kingdoms are part of the same sheaf of universes as the Young Wizards setting.

Adding to this, one interdimensional portal in The Door into Fire appears to open over New York City.

Duane is working on the final volume.

Duane wrote a trilogy of Spider-Man novels, The Venom Factor, for Byron-Preiss Multimedia from 1994 to 1996.

The trilogy was composed of:

(written with Peter Morwood)

Co-authored with Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

1. Virtual Vandals

2. One Is the Loneliest Number

3. End Game

In December 2005, Duane proposed to her fans that they fund a third novel in the series, The Big Meow.

After funding the project via whole-book subscriptions, per-chapter threshold pledges, merchandising, "put something in the kitty" donations, and $2,900 in challenge grants, Duane wrote, over a span of two and a half years, seven of the book's 13 chapters.

In February 2011, Duane announced she would be releasing new versions of the first 4 books in the series, updating the technology used in the books, fixing some timeline issues within the series, and overall making the series more appealing to contemporary young adult readers.

The first of the series would be available in June 2011, initially in ebook format, with the next three books to follow in the succeeding months and all these to have new ISBNs, with the publisher switching to the revised editions with new covers around the time the next book in the series is released.

The series, in the same setting as the Young Wizards novels, focuses on cat-wizards, who maintain the worldgates that wizards use for travel between the sheaf of canonical universes.

No new chapters were published between July 2008 and February 2011, but on February 2, 2011, Duane announced the project's completion and posted the remaining chapters for subscribers between then and the 15th.

Books about adult wizards set in the same universe of the Young Wizards series.

The Young Wizards universe contains canonical alternate universes (So You Want to Be a Wizard and To Visit the Queen are good examples: the protagonists travel to alternate universes to solve problems there).