Diane Elizabeth Duane biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Diane Elizabeth Duane

Author Name:

Diane Elizabeth Duane

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Other Names:

Diane Elizabeth Duane

Born:

18 May 1952

Died:





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Selected Works:

Young Wizards:
So You Want to be a Wizard - 1983
Deep Wizardry - 1985
High Wizardry - 1990
A Wizard Abroad - 1993
The Wizard's Dilemma - 2001
A Wizard Alone - 2002
Wizard's Holiday - 2003.
Wizards at War - 2005

A Wizard of Mars - Harcourt - April 2010
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 mp3 of Duane reading it is freely available from her website.

Feline Wizards:

Book of Night With Moon - 1997.
To Visit the Queen - 1998 - Published in the UK as On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service - 1998

Adult Wizards:

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

Short Circuit - projected - verification needed
Theobroma featured in Wizards, Inc - November 2007

Alternate Universes:
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses 

The Middle Kingdoms:

The Door into Fire - 1979
The Door into Shadow - 1984
The Door into Sunset - 1992
The Door into Starlight - to be written

Star Trek Novels: Original Series

The Wounded Sky - 1983
Spock's World - 1988.
Doctor's Order - 1990.
Sand and Stars - 2004 - omnibus, containing Spock's World and A - C - Crispin's Sarek

Star Trek - Rihannsu:

My Enemy, My Ally - 1984.
The Romulan Way - 1987 - co-written with husband Peter Morwood
Swordhunt - 2000
Honor Blade - 2000
The Empty Chair - 2006
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages - 2006
Next Generation
Dark Mirror - 1993
Intellivore - 1997
Duane also shares story credit on the TNG episode Where No One Has Gone Before with Michael Reaves

Star Trek - Harbinger:

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.
Starrise at Corrivale - October 1998
Storm at Eldala - March 1999
Nightfall at Algemron - April 2000

Spider-Man:

Duane wrote a trilogy of Spider-Man novels, The Venom Factor, for Byron-Preiss Multimedia from 1994 to 1998 - The trilogy was composed of:
The Venom Factor
The Lizard Sanction
The Octopus Agenda

Guardians of the Three:

Keeper of the City - 1989 - written with Peter Morwood
SeaQuest DSV
SeaQuest DSV: The Novel

Space Cops: written with Peter Morwood

Mindblast - 1991
Kill Station - 1992
High Moon - 1992

X-COM:
UFO Defense - 1995

X-Men:
Empire's End - 1995

Net Force: Co-authored with Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

Virtual Vandals
One Is the Loneliest Number
End Game
Safe House
Deathworld
Runaways
Death Match

Omnitopia:
Omnitopia Dawn - Hardcover - 2010

Short Stories:

Parting Gifts featured in Flashing Swords! - Demons and Daggers - 1981, and released for free on her website as part of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

Lior and the Sea featured in Moonsinger's Friends - 1986
Apparitions featured in The Further Adventures of Superman - 1993
The Dovrefell Cat featured in Xanadu 2 - 1995
Don't Put That in Your Mouth, You Don't Know Where It's Been featured in Don't Forget Your Space Suit, Dear - 1996
Recensions featured in Amazing Magazine - 1998
Blank Check in On Crusade: More Tales of the Knights Templar - 1998
1-900-nodream featured in Perchance to Dream - 2000
Night Whispers featured in Star Trek: Enterprise Logs - 2000
Herself featured in Emerald Magic - 2004
The Fix - 2006
Goths and Robbers featured in the Doctor Who anthology Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership - 2008
The House featured in Witch High - 2008

Comics:

Ill Wind, five part graphic novel/miniseries for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, DC Comics, New York: Autumn 1995-Spring 1996.
The Tale of Prince Ivan the Not-Too-Experienced, six-part comic script for THE DREAMERY, Epic Comics, December 1987 through August 1988
The Last Word, STAR TREK #28: single-issue comic script for DC Comics, NYC, April 1986.
Double Blind, STAR TREK #24-25: two-part - comedy comic script for DC Comics, NYC, Jan/Feb 1986.
The Misadventures of Prince Ivan - About Comics - February 2011

Other prose works:

Duane has recently made available in various e-formats a previously unpublished book which was sold to at least two European publishers, but never actually brought out due to internal restructuring at one publishing house - Corgi and the sale of another - Heyne Verlag.

]Screen works: film and television

Duane has worked in television since the early 1980s, initially becoming involved in script work at the Hanna-Barbera animation studio - now Cartoon Network - After writing numerous scripts for such series as Scooby and Scrappy-Doo, Captain Caveman, Space Stars, Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, Biskitts, and Laverne and Shirley in the Army, she moved on to work in development and serve as a staff writer at Filmation, and in 1985 was hired to story-edit the DiC animated series Dinosaucers - During this period she also wrote scripts for Sunbow Productions - Glo Friends, Transformers, and My Little Pony and Walt Disney Productions - Duck Tales - In 1986, she co-wrote - with Michael Reaves the script of one of the earliest episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Where No One Has Gone Before.
In the early 1990s Duane was brought on board as the head writer on the BBC Television educational series Science Challenge - Shortly thereafter she co-wrote - with her husband scripts for Batman: The Animated Series and for Gargoyles - She also wrote the screenplay for the 1996 space adventure game Privateer 2 - The Darkening, which starred Clive Owen, Christopher Walken, Jürgen Prochnow and Mathilda May - Other screen work from that period includes the screenplay for the Space Island One episode Not In My Back Yard - 1998–1999.
In 2003, after doing nearly four years' development work with the production company Tandem Communications of Munich, Germany, Duane and Peter Morwood co-wrote the script for the German TV miniseries Die Nibelungen - The miniseries aired in Germany on the Sat.1 network in late November 2004, and a feature version - titled Sword of Xanten screened in the UK in December 2004 - A megafeature cut of the entire miniseries was aired on Channel Four television in the UK in December 2005 - The miniseries aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US in late March 2006 under the title Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King - The miniseries has also been released on DVD in the US and numerous other markets, under various titles - the previous US title was Curse of the Ring.

Duane was also the co-author of the Barbie movie Barbie: Fairytopia.
An adaptation of So You Want to be a Wizard is currently in the works.                          
                          
Awards:

"Midnight Snack" (Cassette version): Award for Excellence in Education from Media & Methods Magazine - 1987

The Door Into Fire: Two-time John W. Campbell Award nominee for best new writer

"Young Wizards" series: special commendation in the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize in Children's Literature - 2003

Wizard's Dilemma: Mythopoeic award nominee - 2002
Wizards at War: Mythopoeic award nominee - 2006.