Engine Summer

I love So You Want to be a Wizard?, but am also horribly annoyed with it because it suddenly became clear to me when I was about thirteen that SYWtbaW is the children's book you see if they don't think you're cool enough to be a wizard, which sent me into a funk for six months. On the other hand, the author's name on the manual Nita first picks up is Hearnssen, meaning that one of the protagonists of Duane's other major series wrote it, and this helps a lot with me dealing. Am *so* cool enough to be a wizard, dammit.