Stephen King. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. Synopsis[edit] The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended.
After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland fruitlessly riddle Blaine the Mono for several hours, Eddie defeats the mad computer by telling childish jokes. Blaine is unable to handle Eddie's "illogical" riddles, and short-circuits. The ka-tet leaves the city via the Kansas Turnpike, and as they camp one night next to an eerie dimensional hole which Roland calls a "thinny," the gunslinger tells his apprentices of his past, and his first encounter with a thinny. Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Меле́нтьевич Во́лков [ɐlʲɪˈksandr mʲɪˈlʲenʲtʲɪvʲɪtɕ ˈvolkəf]; June 14, 1891 – July 3, 1977) was a Soviet novelist and mathematician.
Volkov was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk. He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L. The Wizard of the Emerald City. Volkov's Magic Land series, as it was called, was translated into many languages and was popular with children all over the Eastern Bloc.
Volkov's version of Oz seems to be better known than Baum's in some countries, for example in China and the former East Germany. The books in the series have been translated into English — or retranslated, in the case of the first book — by Peter L. Blystone, and were published by Red Branch Press in three volumes (two books per volume) in 1991 (revised edition 2010), 1993, and 2007. A very important reason for the success of these books were the illustrations by Leonid Vladimirsky. Characters[edit] Geoff Ryman. Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department.[1] His most recent full-length novel, The King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor Jayavarman VII, and in the present period.
He is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the United States before the Civil War. Biography[edit] Ryman was born in Canada and moved to the United States at age 11. He earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England in 1973, where he has lived most of his life.[2][3] He is gay.[2] In addition to being an author, Ryman started a web design team for the UK government at the Central Office of Information in 1994.[4] He also led the teams that designed the first official British Monarchy and 10 Downing Street websites, and worked on the UK government's flagship website www.direct.gov.uk.[4] Works[edit] Much of Ryman's work is based on travels to Cambodia.
Bibliography[edit] Was. 1992 novel by Geoff Ryman Was is an adult parallel to the magical Land of Oz that never existed as a real place.
The novel explores the tragic but very moving life of "Dorothy Gael" in 1800s Kansas, whose traumatic experiences with Aunt Emily and Uncle Henry after her mother's death leads her to create an imaginary and idealized world in her mind based on some of her real-life experiences as a way of coping with her bleak reality. Philip José Farmer. A Barnstormer in Oz. A Barnstormer in Oz: A Rationalization and Extrapolation of the Split-Level Continuum is a 1982 novel by Philip José Farmer and is based on the setting and characters of L.
Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The central character of the novel is Hank Stover, a pilot and the son of Dorothy Gale, who finds himself in Oz when his plane gets lost in a green cloud over Kansas in 1923. The Oz he discovers is on the brink of civil war; he encounters Erakna, the new Wicked Witch. Farmer takes an unusual approach to the corpus of Oz literature; he depends primarily, almost solely, on Baum's original Oz book and neglects its many sequels. This "originalist" approach to the Oz mythos is rare but not unique; a few other writers — perhaps most notably, Roger S. Sherwood Smith. Sherwood Smith writes fantasy and science fiction for young adults as well as adults.
She has participated in and organized writing groups (both on- and off-line) for many years. In 2001 her short story "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Moreover, her children's books have made it on many library Best Books lists, and Wren's War was an Anne Spencer Lindbergh Honor book and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award finalist.[1] Biography[edit] Sherwood Smith was born in 1951.[1] On her website, Smith describes herself as a middle-aged woman who has been married for thirty years. Smith began making books out of taped paper towels when she was five years old.[1] When she was 8, she started writing about another world, Sartorias-deles, though she soon switched to making comic books of her stories, which she found to be easier. Smith currently resides in California.[1] Partial bibliography[edit]
The Emerald Wand of Oz. The Emerald Wand of Oz is a 2005 book by Sherwood Smith and is a continuation of the Oz series that was started by L.
Frank Baum in 1900 and continued by his many successors.The book is illustrated by William Stout and published by Harper Collins. The novel concerns two relatives of Dorothy Gale, Em and Dory, who find themselves in Oz just as Bastinda, a new Wicked Witch of the West, threatens the citizens of Oz. Trouble Under Oz. Trouble Under Oz is a 2006 novel by Sherwood Smith, illustrated by William Stout and published by Harper Collins.
It is a sequel to Smith's 2005 novel The Emerald Wand of Oz which is a further continuation of the Oz series originally started by L. Frank Baum in 1900 . Dori and Em, Dorothy Gale's modern-day descendents from the previous book, return in this second installment. Dori travels to Oz in answer to a summons from Princess Ozma, while Em remains behind to deal with their parents' impending divorce. Ozma asks Dori to travel with Prince Inga to the Nome Kingdom; there they will aid Prince Rik to take control of the throne and avoid a war. James Howe. James Howe (born August 2, 1946, Oneida, New York) is the American author of over 80 juvenile and young adult books, including the Bunnicula series, about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables.
Biography[edit] Howe would continue to write plays during his theater studies at Boston University, and eventually move to New York City to pursue a career as an actor and model while directing plays and working as a literary agent. In the mid-1970s, Howe's mother-in-law encouraged him and his wife, Deborah Howe, to create a children's story based on a character the two had created while watching older Dracula movies, which at the time were played late at night on TV in the 1970s.[2] With his wife, he created Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery, about a pet rabbit suspected of being a vampire. Mister Tinker in Oz. Mister Tinker in Oz is an apocryphal Oz book, authored by James Howe and published in 1985 by Random House involving an inventor responsible for Tik-Tok the Clockwork man and Dorothy and their adventure in Oz.
Plot summary[edit] One night in Kansas, Dorothy meets Ezra P. Dick Martin. Dickinson P. Martin (June 29, 1927 – February 14, 1990) was an artist from Chicago who illustrated a number of books related to The Oz books series, most notably, Merry Go Round in Oz (1963), the 40th and final title in the regular series, as well as many other children's books.
He wrote and illustrated The Ozmapolitan of Oz, published in 1986. It and three previous Oz books published by the club were produced in an 8.5 x 11 format at his request so that he could draw fewer illustratons. The Ozmapolitan of Oz. Authorship[edit] As both author and artist, Martin had control over the total expression of his fiction. Like most Oz authors, he supplied a human protagonist for young readers to identify with; unusually, he made his protagonist a teenager, a fifteen-year-old boy. In his illustrations, Martin made Dorothy Gale appear somewhat older than she is generally portrayed; she looks like she is at least twelve years old. A decade and a half later, Dave Hardenbrook would also offer a teenage protagonist in his 2000 novel The Unknown Witches of Oz; Martin does not go as far as Hardenbrook later would in making his teen hero a romantic interest.
The term "Ozmapolitan"[edit] Edward Einhorn. Edward Einhorn (born September 6, 1970) is an American playwright, theater director, and novelist, noted for the comic absurdism of his drama and the imaginative richness of his literary works. As playwright, Einhorn has composed one-act and full-length plays, including dramas on Jewish legends[4] and a series of plays on neurological conditions — The Boy Who Wanted to be a Robot (on Asperger syndrome), The Taste of Blue, (on synesthesia), Strangers (on Korsakov's syndrome), and Linguish (on aphasia). He has adapted the Lysistrata of Aristophanes for modern audiences.[5] He has also written a few plays on Czech subjects, such as Rudolf II (based on the 16th century Emperor who lived in Prague), and The Velvet Oratorio (a Vaněk play staged at Lincoln Center and based on the events of the Velvet Revolution).[6] His most personal play, Drs.
Jane and Alexander, is a found text piece about his mother and his grandfather, Alexander Wiener, who discovered the Rh factor in blood. Paradox in Oz. Paradox in Oz is a 1999 novel written by Edward Einhorn. As its title indicates, the book is an entry in the series of books about the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and a host of successors. The book[edit] Paradox in Oz was published by Hungry Tiger Press, with illustrations by Eric Shanower. It was playwright Einhorn's first novel and first Oz book. Genre[edit] Synopsis[edit] The Unknown Witches of Oz. Oz-story Magazine. John R. Neill. John Rea Neill (November 12, 1877 - September 19, 1943) was a magazine and children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of Oz, including L. Frank Baum's, Ruth Plumly Thompson's, and three of his own.[1] His pen-and-ink drawings have become identified almost exclusively with the Oz series.
He did a great deal of magazine and newspaper illustration work which is not as well known today. The Wonder City of Oz. The Scalawagons of Oz. Lucky Bucky in Oz. The Runaway in Oz. Jack Snow. John Frederick "Jack" Snow (August 15, 1907 – July 13, 1956), born Piqua, Ohio was an American radio writer, writer of ghost stories, and scholar, primarily of the works of L. Frank Baum. The Magical Mimics in Oz. A new "Royal Historian"[edit] Jack Snow was the fourth official chronicler or "Royal Historian" of Oz, after Baum himself, Ruth Plumly Thompson, and long-time Oz illustrator John R. The Shaggy Man of Oz.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Royal Book of Oz. Kabumpo in Oz. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. Grampa in Oz. The Lost King of Oz. The Hungry Tiger of Oz. The Gnome King of Oz. The Giant Horse of Oz. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz. The Yellow Knight of Oz. Pirates in Oz. The Purple Prince of Oz. Ojo in Oz. Speedy in Oz. The Wishing Horse of Oz. Captain Salt in Oz. Handy Mandy in Oz. The Silver Princess in Oz. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz. Yankee in Oz. The Enchanted Island of Oz. L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Book) The Marvelous Land of Oz. Ozma of Oz. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. The Road to Oz. The Emerald City of Oz. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Tik-Tok of Oz. The Scarecrow of Oz. Rinkitink in Oz. The Lost Princess of Oz. The Tin Woodman of Oz. The Magic of Oz. Glinda of Oz. Little Wizard Stories of Oz. Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz. Gregory Maguire. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Son of a Witch. A Lion Among Men. Eloise McGraw.
Merry Go Round in Oz. The Forbidden Fountain of Oz. The Rundelstone of Oz. Rachel Cosgrove Payes. The Hidden Valley of Oz. The Wicked Witch of Oz.