1) Happy Festivus to all! Here, I am pleased to tell you that the holiday has gone quite well and according to custom with the Grey One knocking down a pole. (Well, ok, technically the Swifter, but, a pole is a pole and she liked watching it fall since her grievances, apparently, are poles that stand up and faucets that could be running water, but ( Read more... )

I'm interviewed up at Fantasy Magazine today. The entire interview made me remember that the Sicilian folktale I'm going on about is located someplace in a huge pile of boxes, like, THANKS ITALO CALVINO, and is not going to be found today. Sniffle. (Actually I can't remember if I encountered the tale through him or not....something that can only ( Read more... )

Ok, I lied. (Not intentionally, but I lied.) I do have a Tor.com post up today, about L. Frank Baum's Sky Island. I also have a copy of Towers of Midnight, featuring
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And on a completely different note, a new Tor.com post up about John Dough and the Cherub, featuring a genderless - or nearly genderless - protagonist.

Also, as long as you are there, Tor.com is offering a steampunk giveaway deal with lots of very cool things and some books and also an autographed Star Trek book thing, so, wander around!

What with everything yesterday, I completely missed that the next Tor.com post is up, this one dealing with Queen Zixi of Ix.

My latest Tor.com post, about L. Frank Baum's experiments with science fiction, is now up at Tor.com. Enjoy!

My post on The Magical Monarch of Mo just went up at Tor.com. This was a book I'd never read in childhood, and it let me think impossible things for awhile.

Submarines, slacking, magic wands, sinking islands and more - my post about Glinda of Oz up at Tor.comAnd now some good news: Tor.com has asked me to continue ahead with this project and review the rest of the canonical Oz books ( Read more... )

Tor.com has just posted the latest Oz post, The Tin Woodman of Oz.

I didn't discuss it that much in the post, but from a disability perspective, this is one of the most fascinating of the Oz novels (The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with its happily defiant heroine, is the other). The Tin Woodman, after all, started out with a prosthetic leg, then two ( Read more... )

The latest Oz post is up at Tor.com - this one about The Lost Princess of Oz. Deceptive rulers and gun toting teddy bears! Yay ( Read more... )