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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Heads up: DD has commented in the most recent entry with a June 2000 date for SYWTBAW. HM OPINIONS.

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[starlady38.livejournal.com]

So AWAb would be summer 2001, and AWD early 2002?

I don't know, I might have thought about setting them even later, really, so that the tech in the later books can keep up slightly better.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. Spot and Darryl's Wizpod are going to look pretty flash for 2001, 2002, I think. But well, wiztech, I guess! You're not wrong though, especially because the timeline is so compressed in many of the books - the only book that isn't set pretty definitely within a month or two or maybe three of the books preceding and following it is Abroad. (And maybe Mars.) And there's no time at all between Holiday and War, and hardly any between DW and HW. *shrug*

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

I'm stupid and had no idea there were going to be rewrites.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

hah. Not stupid! I hadn't realised quite how imminent they were, myself.

[doranwen.livejournal.com]

I just end up wondering what she'll do about things like 9/11, which *should* get some mention SOMEWHERE in the series (if it hasn't already--my memory is much better for the earlier books, which would not have it--but *should* if she redoes the dates to set them around that time).

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of mentions, actually; once in Wizard's Holiday (Harry talks it over with either Tom or Carl, I think Tom, basically discussing why wizards couldn't prevent it), and once in Wizards at War (Tom comments that things have been getting grimmer lately, Nita thinks of 9/11, and Tom points out that actually he meant in the last couple of thousand years). This works pretty well with a 2000 start date, although it does mean that Nita finds out her mom is going to die of cancer only a few days before 9/11, and then her mom actually dies only a month or two later. So um, it's not very friendly timing, but well, that's probably appropriate).

I'm not sure if I agree that it should get a mention. It's not the obligation of every author to bang on about any particular crisis (specifics of the various troubles in Ireland aren't dealt with much in Abroad, f'rex), and if DD had decided to begin the series in, say, 2006, 2007 (which is consistent with at least one Julian date given in the novels), Nita would have been about seven. *shrug* at any rate, it does.

[doranwen.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for the reference. I know I read Wizard's Holiday . . . once . . . and probably Wizards at War but that was a quick read and it didn't catch my attention as much as the earlier books did. (I still reread the first three every so often but the later ones don't call me to do that as much.)

Hmm, I guess I agree with you about particular crises, I just always felt that 9/11 was something wizards would have been heavily involved trying to save lives and all that (everyone that was anywhere nearby, and since they live pretty close to that area, I can't imagine they wouldn't have been, if they were old enough--though obviously if her mom was dying at the same time, that might be a good excuse for not having her involved). I am reminded of a short fic I read that had just that for the plot, the wizards trying to save people on 9/11. It was powerful. (Obviously if they *weren't* old enough, like you said she could've been about seven at the time--then it wouldn't be as important, at least imho.)

As for the age thing, the best quote I ever found was on someone's Dear Yuletide Author Letter:

"Feel free to bring in other characters, but I'd really like the focus to be on the Ronan-Darryl interaction (Or the Ronan/Darryl interaction, but if you want to go there (and I am not in any way shape or form discouraging that, nossir), please make it futurefic, because Darryl is eleven and Ronan is Too Old For Carmela But Apparently Not Too Old For Nita, Who Is Younger Than Carmela, We Think, plus or minus X, where X is ETERNAL PRESENT, DAMMIT, and that's sketchy as hell.)"

*snickers* Just in case you hadn't read that. ;)