On Tumblr, Diane Duane interacts with fans and their posts, and these active fans include many Autistic readers. Prior to and while working on the rewriting of A Wizard Alone, Duane noted that she intended to make significant changes to the portrayal of Darryl and his autism-quite a bit has been learned since the book’s publication in 2002, both in terms of the science and in terms of Duane interacting with Autistic people directly. The sixth book and focus of my review, A Wizard Alone, received the most changes, primarily around the representation of Darryl McAllister, a young autistic African-American wizard introduced in this book. Duane then ended up revising all nine currently published books in the series. She gets into detail on her reasoning on her blog. Because of these issues, as well her concerns about the quality of her writing nearly three decades later, Duane started updating the first four novels in the series. With changes in publishers and long gaps between books, the series has some timeline issues, and some readers are finding the first books out of date.
Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series began in 1983 with the publication of So You Want to Be a Wizard.
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