Some time ago I had the opportunity to read Ryk Spoor's Polychrome in Oz in manuscript. I sent him my comments, some of which you can see in that link. What I didn't tell him was that both midway through and at the end I kept having the same nagging thought: wow, I can see that this might be a tough sell to publishers ( Read more... )

ABC's Once Upon a Time finally went to Oz this last Sunday. I had FEELINGS, which Tor.com was gracious enough to post.

Speaking of Tor.com, the Lloyd Alexander reread finally came to a conclusion with The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio.I'm finding, by the way, that going through this many books by a single author at once is getting slightly mind ( Read more... )

Citibank's chief economist, on today's government shutdown:

"The world's largest economy looks like the Land of Oz run by munchkins," Willem Buiter, Citigroup's global chief economist, told CNBC after the U.S. government shutdown began.

Allow me to say, alas, if only.

I have, of course, been one of the loudest and fiercest critics of Ozma, the ( Read more... )

I present you, oh readers, with choices: you can read my nice serious discussion of Oz the Great and Powerful over at Tor.com, or you can just head straight for the snark:

( Aggressively spoilery snark ahead! )

Sometime ago I made what seemed to be a miraculous find in the nearby Here Be Dragons used bookstore: a copy of Rachel Cosgrove Payes' The House of Tarot. Even better, I got it for free, which seemed really miraculous until I started reading it and discovered that once again the bookstore owner really knew her used books ( Read more... )

1. Starting with the tiniest of updates: a little and completely untitled twitter story of mine popped up at Nanoism. You will note that it focuses on two of my obsessions: Oz and Twitter.

2. On a considerably larger note, I note that Beast Within 3: Oceans Unleashed has popped up at Amazon and Barnes and Noble a few days before the official ( Read more... )

...but I just haven't been in a blogging mood. Again. But a few things I ought to mention:

1) The weekly Tor.com post, about the next book in the Freddy series, The Story of Freginald, has popped up on Tor.com.

2) And as long as I'm chatting about Tor.com, also appearing on the site today is a preview of the cover for A Memory of Light, the ( Read more... )

Apparently this comic is, and I quote, "an homage to Mari Ness and her hatred of Oz-related clowns."

In fairness, I don't hate ALL Oz clowns. Just this one. I quite liked the little clown in The Shaggy Man of Oz.

And speaking of that book, I just got a copy of The Shaggy Man of Oz: Empty-Grave Retrofit Edition. I haven't had the time to give it ( Read more... )

Thanks to ICFA, golf, ICFA, more golf, and recovering from ICFA and golf, I've been pretty much out of it (and mostly offline) for the last week or so, but not so out of it that I have not been kept abreast of the latest developments in modern culture:

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Thanks - I think thanks, anyway - are due to the BBC for recording this in the first place and ( Read more... )

1. The latest Madeleine L'Engle reread, about Many Waters, is up at Tor.com. Bonus! No inappropriate sex, homophobia or racism issues in this post or the comments. Yet ( Read more... )