Mostly I'm commenting just to wish you the best -- the Young Wizards books have meant a lot to me for more than half my life now (granted I'm only 22, so that may not mean as much). And I'll be really interested to see what happens with this new effort.
However, I also wanted to mention for the sake of mentioning that at eleven, having had reliable internet access at home and school for several years, and not remembering not living around a computer (I was very lucky and grew up near a university) -- I thought the tech in High Wizardry was pretty much the best thing, in part because it was just slightly behind my...contemporary tech knowledge, I suppose. The idea that you could make a computer do almost anything "with the right peripherals and a smart programmer" was thrilling and awesome, and much more so presented with the interface Dairine was dealing with, and it's often made me wish halfheartedly that I had been getting into computers three years before I was born (sorry!).
I'm a strange 'modern reader', I'm sure, but like zellion mentions, the tech never bothered me in the slightest -- I would go so far as to say I almost preferred it, but we return here to my being strange. (The chronology things I've found more difficult but rarely have been bothered, assuming they stemmed from the updates beginning with Dilemma; and I can see that teen life is quite different and can certainly understand wanting to reflect those things in YW.)
Anyway, though, all YW is important to me but High Wizardry in particular is, and it is not a tiny part of the reason I've ended up in Computer/Info. Science; I cite those scenes when Dairine opens the non-bit-Apple as A Reason. So if the books are being updated, thank you also for what they 'were'/are in "Classic" form! I am quite curious to see what happens. :)
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Date: 2011-05-30 04:10 pm (UTC)However, I also wanted to mention for the sake of mentioning that at eleven, having had reliable internet access at home and school for several years, and not remembering not living around a computer (I was very lucky and grew up near a university) -- I thought the tech in High Wizardry was pretty much the best thing, in part because it was just slightly behind my...contemporary tech knowledge, I suppose. The idea that you could make a computer do almost anything "with the right peripherals and a smart programmer" was thrilling and awesome, and much more so presented with the interface Dairine was dealing with, and it's often made me wish halfheartedly that I had been getting into computers three years before I was born (sorry!).
I'm a strange 'modern reader', I'm sure, but like
Anyway, though, all YW is important to me but High Wizardry in particular is, and it is not a tiny part of the reason I've ended up in Computer/Info. Science; I cite those scenes when Dairine opens the non-bit-Apple as A Reason. So if the books are being updated, thank you also for what they 'were'/are in "Classic" form! I am quite curious to see what happens. :)