Uptown Local and Other Interventions

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This anthology collects some of Diane Duane’s most popular short work — stories that range across time and space, with a visit to her best-known milieu, the seminal Young Wizards young adult / urban fantasy series.

Uptown Local features eleven long and short works from the last decade and beyond, including:

  • In The Company of HeroesA billionaire “living the dream” goes on a desperate quest for the one thing he needs to make his life perfect: a very special comic book…
  • The Rizzoli Bag — A sad young man in a Roman cafe is offered a once-in-a-lifetime bargain…
  • Out of the Frying PanThe life of a part-time witch working in a shopping mall is turned upside down in a day…
  • The Queen and the Thief and the Dragon — A (fairy) tale of the True West, and a young monarch’s solution to a thorny diplomatic problem…
  • Bears — An ancient sorrow (with a modern twist) wanders through the tumult of a pre-Lenten street carnival…
  • The Fix In the dark guts of Rome’s Colosseum, a slave boy with an impossible dream becomes entangled in the machinations of immortals…
  • Herself — In the heart of Dublin, something is killing the People of the Hills — and it’s going to take Ireland’s only superhero to stop it…
  • Hopper Painting — Desolation and redemption in a midnight diner, as trapped and desperate characters struggle with the soul of the artist who created them……
  • The Back Door — Two terrorists meet in Zurich to carry out a very unusual heist with a confederate who’s more dangerous than they imagine…

…And of course, the title story, beloved and sought after for a quarter century by Young Wizards fans, and finally available in an ebook — along with the only other Young Wizards short story, Theobroma.

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