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Yum!!
From the Diane Duane website, this referral:
R/Sandy--who notes that D.D. created her Wizard series before J.K.Rowling started Harry Potter which has quite a few similarities to the D.D. Wizards
Neat ad isn't it? It hit our screens in the UK earlier this year and was a big hit.
Not read any of her work but met her at the Discworld con last year, she was one of the GOHs and will be again next year
Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld novels, talks of the "SciFi/Fantasy pot of ideas" out of & into which SFF authors (such as Tolkien, Pratchettm, Duane, McCaffrey etc.) take and put ideas. Ideas such as wizards with pointy hats, trolls, goblins, imps, witches..... Contributors and users of "the pot" accept that there are certain ideas & character types that are not the possessions on one author, but of the genre. Apparently JKR did not realise that she was writing fantasy novels with the HP books - surely the witches, wizards and magic were a big clue there?
Lizzy
Ah, yes. Makes me giggle whenever I catch it.
Diana Wynne Jones did a school based witch story that pre-dates Harry too.
Oh sure there are bunches of magic school books. I really don't see a whole lot of similarity beyond there being a nomally unseen world of magic, and being set in modern times between The Young Wizards and Harry Potter. They are quite different aside from those two things.
I always liked the Circle of Magic (Debera Doyle , James D MacDonald, and co.) books. Got 'em for the kids and then got sucked in. That happens so often with books and me.
NightMist
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