Category Archives: Mathematics

Curves and Angles

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Nathan

Leather Goddesses of Phobos – Released in 1986, this is an Infocom text adventure with some raunchy elements. They aren’t the main focus of the game, but that kind of thing is usually going to stand out. It’s mostly a campy … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Wait ‘Til the Future Gets Here

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Nathan

While the previous Hulu seasons were released one week at a time, this one was dropped all at once. It was also around when there was a push for people to cancel Hulu because of Disney caving to Trump in … Continue reading →

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Nomecoming

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Nathan

In this post, I’m going to be reviewing a few fan-written Oz books that I’d read at least once before, but not in a while. Button-Bright of Oz, by Harry Mongold – I borrowed this book some years ago, and … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam: Tom Lehrer, 4/9/1928-7/26/2025

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Nathan

I guess it’s no real surprise that someone who was ninety-seven years old would die, and it’s not like there were any controversies surrounding it, but I was still holding out hope that we would all go together when we … Continue reading →

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Rhyme and Reason Reign Once More

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Nathan

I had looked at The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth at Books of Wonder eleven years ago, and I finally received my own copy for Christmas. I reread the story and the annotations, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff there. The … Continue reading →

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Some Pig

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Nathan

Alice Through the Needle’s Eye: The Further Adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, by Gilbert Adair – I had first heard of this in an essay, which I think was about Oz. I didn’t think of looking for it until recently, … Continue reading →

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23 and Me

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Nathan

When I wrote about recurring numbers in the works of certain authors eleven years ago, I received a comment about how twenty-three was significant in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I hadn’t yet read the … Continue reading →

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Illumi-Naughty

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Nathan

In the Cities of Coin and Spice, by Catherynne M. Valente – The second book in the Orphan’s Tales series continues with more diverse but connected stories, with a lot of shifting back and forth when different narrators interrupt, very … Continue reading →

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Nothing Could Be Finer

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Nathan

We are back home from Oz. Well, not really from Oz, because if I could go there, it would be difficult to get me to leave. But we’re back from the CharlOz convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The events took place … Continue reading →

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Big Bugs and Birds

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Nathan

Calculated Risks, by Seanan McGuire – This one is a direct follow-up to Imaginary Numbers, with Sarah Zellaby and her allies transported into another dimension, and their memories of her having been erased. She has to do the calculations to … Continue reading →

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