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Oddly comforting book wankage
Feb. 8th, 2007 01:16 pmI was just looking at Ms. Diane Duane's website, and was extremely comforted to learn from her biography that "The Door into Starlight" is still a work in progress, and not utterly abandoned.
The door books (The Door into Fire, the Door into Shadow, The Door into Sunset) were absolute favorites of mine as a younger teen. Partly because, like Tanya Huff, Diane Duane can write books where the gender/sexuality of the characters is varied and complex and that's treated as deeply, really OK. Partly because I thought the quotes were really cool and I wanted to know all of those characters. Partly because I'd loved the Young Wizards books since I was about 8, and it felt like so many of the same themes, but explored with adult complication (and it's been driving me crazy that Kit and Nita aren't hooking up yet - way back when she stopped being able to read his mind easily, I so assumed that that was where they were going - I've sort of decided that the author must have realized that if the characters matured too fast, the series wouldn't be able to continue as a middle grade accessible series. Which is fine, but makes me wistful. I want a young adult Nita! A prickly/fierce/wise 19 year old Nita with a dating life!).
So yeah, The Door into Starlight, when it exists, is one of those books I really really want to read.
The other book that doesn't exist that I want to read as badly is "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities." Back in the edition of "Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand" that I read at 10 or 11, there was a back note that said "Yadda yadda author is working on sequel "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities". " And I went right down to NYC and hassled every bookseller (there were a lot of them then) on 5th Avenue in downtown Manhattan, and the nice people at Forbidden Planet, and I still wasn't satisfied. I was all like "this book came out YEARS ago - the sequel must be somewhere by now!" and finally the nice man behind the check desk at the Strand took down Books in Print for me and showed me that there was no such book in print. And I was very sad. And I still am, honestly. Though I liked all the Neveryon books and Dhalgren and The Mad Man, I want me some Splendor and Misery. Maybe partly because that's such a beautiful title. Darn you Samuel Delany for taunting me cruelly with non-existent tasty sequels. Darn you!
The door books (The Door into Fire, the Door into Shadow, The Door into Sunset) were absolute favorites of mine as a younger teen. Partly because, like Tanya Huff, Diane Duane can write books where the gender/sexuality of the characters is varied and complex and that's treated as deeply, really OK. Partly because I thought the quotes were really cool and I wanted to know all of those characters. Partly because I'd loved the Young Wizards books since I was about 8, and it felt like so many of the same themes, but explored with adult complication (and it's been driving me crazy that Kit and Nita aren't hooking up yet - way back when she stopped being able to read his mind easily, I so assumed that that was where they were going - I've sort of decided that the author must have realized that if the characters matured too fast, the series wouldn't be able to continue as a middle grade accessible series. Which is fine, but makes me wistful. I want a young adult Nita! A prickly/fierce/wise 19 year old Nita with a dating life!).
So yeah, The Door into Starlight, when it exists, is one of those books I really really want to read.
The other book that doesn't exist that I want to read as badly is "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities." Back in the edition of "Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand" that I read at 10 or 11, there was a back note that said "Yadda yadda author is working on sequel "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities". " And I went right down to NYC and hassled every bookseller (there were a lot of them then) on 5th Avenue in downtown Manhattan, and the nice people at Forbidden Planet, and I still wasn't satisfied. I was all like "this book came out YEARS ago - the sequel must be somewhere by now!" and finally the nice man behind the check desk at the Strand took down Books in Print for me and showed me that there was no such book in print. And I was very sad. And I still am, honestly. Though I liked all the Neveryon books and Dhalgren and The Mad Man, I want me some Splendor and Misery. Maybe partly because that's such a beautiful title. Darn you Samuel Delany for taunting me cruelly with non-existent tasty sequels. Darn you!
