DUANE, Diane E(lizabeth)

(1952-)

   US writer, most respected for her work in fantasy. She is married to fantasy author Peter Morwood (1956-), with whom she has collaborated on three books. She began writing fantasies with the Epic Tale of the Five sequence - The Door into Fire (1979) and The Door into Shadow (1984), later extended with The Door into Sunset (1992) - and continued with the Wizard sequence: So You Want to Be a Wizard? (1983), Deep Wizardry (1985) and High Wizardry (1990), all three being assembled as Support Your Local Wizard (omni 1990), plus A Wizard Abroad (1993). Of more direct sf interest are several successful STAR TREK ties: The Wounded Sky * (1983), My Enemy, My Ally * (1984), The Romulan Way * (1987) with Morwood, Spock's World * (1988), Doctor's Orders * (1990)and Star Trek, the Next Generation: Dark Mirror * (1993). Though the smooth power of her best fantasies does not transmit perfectly to her sf ties, the Star Trek examples are by no means negligible. Other ties include Guardians of the Three \#2: Keeper of the City * (anth 1989) and Space Cops: Mindblast * (1991), both with Morwood, and Space Cops: Kill Station * (1992), seaQuest DSV: The Novel * (1993) with Morwood, based on the pilot for the seaQuest tv series, and Spider-Man: The Venom Factor * (1994).

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