High Wizardry
core novel 1990 Young Wizards
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.06 (11,355 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 368 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780385299831 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
High Wizardry, third novel in the Young Wizards series, shifts focus to Dairine, Nita's younger sister, who discovers Nita's wizard's manual at home and, without her sister's knowledge, takes the Wizard's Oath herself. Dairine's own manual arrives in an unexpected form, a computer she nicknames Spot, and she quickly begins using her new powers for interdimensional travel, journeying to Mars and other worlds far beyond anything Nita and Kit have yet encountered. During her travels Dairine comes across a vast, silicon-based planet built around an ancient dormant computer; once she wakes it, the system begins generating new forms of life, and Dairine takes an active hand in shaping and naming these emerging beings.
Where it sits
- Universe: Young Wizards
- Series: Young Wizards core; position 3 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Diane Duane
Notes
- From the series record (Young Wizards): A further main-sequence novel has been announced under a working title but not yet published as of the latest update.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Young Wizards: position 3 of 10: previous Deep Wizardry (1985) · next A Wizard Abroad (1993)
Sources
← Young Wizards dossier · All universes
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