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Always Chasing Rainbows

Posted on May 6, 2026 by Nathan

Today, I’m reviewing two Oz books, one new to me and another that I first read a quarter of a century ago. The Black Rainbow of Oz, by David M. Keyes – The second book in the New Oz Chronicles returns … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Gina Wickwar, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a nightmare in oz, anna-maria cool, beak the parrot, betsy bobbin, bungle the glass cat, chief thundercloud, conventions, dr. nikidik, dr. pipt, emma lou, fairies, fred meyer, international wizard of oz club, kabumpo, ketzal, king gugu, leprechauns, mombi, new oz chronicles, ozma, paddy o'paint, parrots, penny the teacup poodle, polychrome, prince cyan, prince pompadore, princess vitrea of silica, pumperdink, rainbow, scarecrow, silica, sir hokus of pokes, the black rainbow of oz, the hidden prince of oz, tin woodman, vitriol of silica, vitrix of silica, zeebo | 1 Comment

Courses for Horses

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Nathan

I’ve had another one of my stories published in the 2025 issue of Oziana, and since I’ve now read my contributor’s copy, I suppose I should say a few things about it. The cover illustration is by Rob. Lauer. “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Diane Brzozowski, Food, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a catastrophic celebration in oz, a farewell to oz, birds, captain fyter, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, doubtful dromedary, dr. pipt, emerald city, giants, gump, horses, j. l. bell, jim the cab-horse, liquid of petrifaction, magpies, margolotte, mel vavaroutsos, nine tiny piglets, ojo, otis frampton, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, princess marygolden of corabia, queen of the field-mice, rob lauer, samandra, sawhorse, scarecrow, scott b. blanke, sir hokus of pokes, snip the button boy, stampedro, stephen smith, sultan of samandra, the bricks, the joust of oz, the lost king of oz, the low mare of oz, the missing key, the patchwork girl of oz, the piglets and the tin soldier, the royal joust of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, where's my oil can?, winged monkeys, wizard of oz, writing, yellow brick road, zim greenleaf of oz | 4 Comments

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Nathan

Here are my thoughts on four more Oz books I’ve read for the first time in the past month or so. Veggy Man of Oz, by Nate Barlow – I know this author now as the guy who does enthusiastic … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Plays, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports, William Shakespeare | Tagged baseball, blinkie, buckethead enterprises of oz, cap'n bill, captain salt, carter green, clowns, cowardly lion, crescent moon, dinosaurs, dorothy gale, enya, fairies, glinda, gregory maguire, jinxland, jordan monsell, kerrie mcintire, king krewl, king rinkitink, merfolk, merla, mirror men, mombi, nimmie amee, nonestic ocean, notta bit more, ozcon international, ozma, pastoria, pirates in oz, princess clia, queen aquareine, sail away to oz, scarecrow, shakespeare's oz, sienna arts, sycorax, t. jacob madison, the crescent moon of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the tempest, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, tyrannicus terrificus, tyrannosaurus rex, veggy man of oz, wicked witch of the west, witches | Leave a comment

A Time to Crydee

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Nathan

A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – The fighting man of this story is Tan Hadron, a soldier from Hastor in the Kingdom of Helium. I wonder if the town was named after Hastur, a character used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Catholicism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, History, Holy Roman Empire, Judaism, Magic, Maps, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged a fighting man of mars, ambrose bierce, apes, baudolino, blemmyae, charlemagne, cranes, crydee, cynocephali, dwarves, elves, emperor frederick barbarossa, foucault's pendulum, gagliaugo aulari, gondwane, h.p. lovecraft, hastur, holy grail, hypatia, kosmas, krondor, lin carter, magician apprentice, mars, monopods, niketas choneates, ollub vetch, palensus choy, prester john, pumperdink, pygmies, raymond e. feist, relics, riftwar saga, robert chambers, rocs, sambation river, satyrs, sciapods, spiders, tan hadron, ten lost tribes, the habitation of the blessed, the immortal of world's end, the king in yellow, three wise men, trolls, umberto eco, unicorns, william weaver | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mathematics, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a wonderful journey in oz, acinad, acinad goes to the emerald city of oz, betsy bobbin, button-bright, button-bright of oz, christina plunkett, danica libutti, dorothy gale, elves, emerald city, giants, glinda, harry mongold, improbable forest, ix, jack pumpkinhead, jason cook, jeremy steadman, john dough and the cherub, k. kline, kaliko in oz, kinglet of phreex, krook, lucky bucky in oz, magic belt, magic umbrella, matt mcdermott, mombi, nomes, oziana, ozma, pigs, professor wogglebug, queen zixi of ix, roberto sanchez, ryan wooten, satire, sawhorse, scarecrow, sheep, the emerald ring of oz, the giant horse of oz, the improbable forest, the lost princess of oz, the magic diamond of oz, the marvelous monkeys of oz, the sawhorse of oz, time travel, time travelling in oz, tin woodman, trickolas om, ugu the shoemaker, walapus, walpirtis, witches | Leave a comment

You Can’t Take it with You

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Nathan

Years ago, although it doesn’t feel like it, I wrote about the inconsistent rules for magic outside fairyland in the Oz books. There are a few elements here that I thought I’d expand upon. I’ll start with an exchange towards … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged button-bright, camels, circlets of halidom, david perry, dorothy gale, elixir of life, fairyland, glinda, hugh pendexter, humpty bumpty, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jewelry, jewels, jinrikisha, john dough and the cherub, kapurta, love magnet, magic belt, merry go round in oz, michael patrick hearn, nome king, oz and the three witches, ozma, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates, pirates in oz, polacky the plunderer, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, robin brown, shell city, silver shoes, speedy, speedy in oz, the annotated wizard of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the gnome king of oz, the road to oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tompy terry, umbrella island, uncle henry, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz | 2 Comments

A Floating Island Was His Home

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Nathan

When I read a book about Sumerian mythology earlier this year, I found it interesting that there was a floating city. This was Eridu, sometimes considered the oldest city of the world and the first seat of the kingship, created … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Chrono Trigger, Conspiracy Theories, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Jonathan Swift, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Mythology, Oz, Places, Star Wars, Sumerian, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aeolus, agobard of lyon, airships, apollo, aristophanes, artemis, bespin, castle in the sky, cloud city, cloudcuckooland, delos, edward brooke-hitching, enki, eridu, final fantasy iii, gulliver's travels, hera, kingdom of zeal, laputa, leto, magonia, maria dahvana headley, odysseus, odyssey, perelandra, saddam hussein, sky island, space trilogy, the birds, the empire strikes back, the sky atlas, venus | 4 Comments

The Song of Noland

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Nathan

Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak, by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Frederick Richardson – This book is 120 years old now, which I guess means Zixi herself is now 803. Well, probably not really, since it’s doubtful … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Fairy Tales, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alligators, aunt rivette, dogs, fairies, frederick richardson, ix, jikki, king timothy of noland, lulea, magic cloak, mo, noland, owls, princess margaret of noland, quavo the minstrel, queen zixi of ix, roly-rogues, the enchanted island of yew, the magic cloak of oz, the magic cloak or something new, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the road to oz, the story of the magic cloak, the wonderful wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Woman, What Have You Done with the King?

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Nathan

The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I first read this in junior high, along with many of the other post-Baum Oz books. Here are my thoughts on my most recent reread, and it does include SPOILERS. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Food, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged back woods, benny, bill the weather-cock, blankenburg, cats, catty corners, dorothy gale, elephants, fairies, geese, glinda, grampa in oz, humpy the dummy, kabumpo, kimbaloo, lurline, magic picture, mombi, ozma, pajuka, pastoria, professor wogglebug, scooters, snip the button boy, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, witches, wizard of oz | 7 Comments

I Don’t Want to Read Your Series of Conspiracy Theories

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Nathan

The Waste Lands, by Stephen King – While Roland, Eddie, and Susanna are traveling through a ruined country that once had an advanced technological civilization, and having a run-in with a robotic bear, Jake Chambers, whom Roland had let die … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Health, History, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sexuality | Tagged artificial intelligence, barry windsor-smith, billy-bumblers, cathars, charlie the choo-choo, conan the barbarian, coronavirus, double up, foucault's pendulum, gail simone, horse of a different color, hyborian age, hyrkanians, knights templar, kuma party, large language models, leon foucault, marvel comics, ottoman empire, ozwoz, paul-michel foucault, planetty, quick city, red sonja, red sonja consumed, richard adams, robert e. howard, robin hess, rosicrucianism, roy thomas, shardik, stephen king, sultan suleiman the magnificent, t.s. eliot, the dark tower, the gnome king of oz, the purple prince of oz, the sapphire mountain of oz, the shadow of the vulture, the waste land, the waste lands, the wizard of oz (1939), tick-tock man, umberto eco, watership down, william weaver, wumbo | 10 Comments

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Always Chasing Rainbows

Courses for Horses

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

A Time to Crydee

Nomecoming

You Can’t Take it with You

The Song of Noland

Woman, What Have You Done with the King?

I Don’t Want to Read Your Series of Conspiracy Theories

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