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• roywiggins · Nov 10, 2017 · Recommends

  Diane Duane's Young Wizards series is more "magic as programming" but it's also quite good if you like stuff that's fairly YA pitched. It bridges the gap between "magic is deeply mysterious and unknowable" and "with the right set…

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• sketerpot · Mar 16, 2009 · Recommends

  I prefer Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. Wizardry is hacking. Oh, and teleportation spells can take you to other planets. It's excellently written, and as addictive as Harry Potter. More information: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YoungWizards

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• pjscott · Oct 16, 2011 · Recommends

  …Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which you can find here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M... ...Or in a variety of ebook formats from the author page. Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series never reveals much about the workings of its magic system, but it's made pretty clear that using magic effectively is mostly a matter of describing precisely what you want to happen, and closely…

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• eli_gottlieb · Mar 26, 2015 · Recommends

  …Science, or a book on games programming -- if I was trying to interest the kid in math and CS subjects. For fiction, it's damned hard to say. My own personal top influences in fiction form were the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane and, weirdly, the anime/manga Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's actually very, very hard to find good fiction for kids, since you're trying to inspire or teach rather than just entertain.…

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• protomyth · Dec 12, 2016 · Recommends

  If you consider modern fantasy in the YA category then Diane Duane's Young Wizards series has been a favorite of mine http://ebooksdirect.co Her Star Trek books are quite good, and the audible books of the Young Wizards series are narrated by Christina Moore who does a very good job…

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• david-given · Feb 5, 2017 · Recommends

  Compare and contrast with Diane Duane's _Young Wizards_ books (which if you liked Harry Potter you should totally read), where in the later ones the characters are using their Wizard's Manuals as instant messenging/social networking clients. Turns out that…

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• BizarroLand · Jan 11, 2023 · Recommends

  Until I read your post I didn't even realize that I have been doing this subconsciously for years. My favorite book, while a bit childish, is the omnibus edition of the first three novels in the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. I like it for the world building, the characters are simple but evolve over time, the settings are banal but made intriguing by the characters' presence in them, the basic idea…

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• Izkata · Jul 3, 2020 · Recommends

  > Entropy is not part of the cultural and mainstream consciousness like Darwinism is. Taking advantage of this to drop one of my favorite book series (though I'm a few books behind): _Young Wizards_ [0], where wizards exist in-universe to fight entropy, so that the universe can continue to exist as long as possible. The series is possibly best known by the name of the first book, _So You Want to…

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• aidenn0 · Dec 25, 2019 · Mentions

  Diane Duane's young wizards series was updated to be less technologically passe. In particular, the second book of the series had a home computer as a major plot point, and it was described as booting to a BASIC prompt (I own the…

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• Izkata · May 1, 2023 · Mentions

  For a fun sidetrack, the purpose of wizardry in the Young Wizards book series is to slow down entropy and keep the universe going as long as possible.

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