Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Oz canon and the film Message-ID: <2917@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 21:20:16 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.2917 Posted: Fri Jun 28 21:20:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 04:46:27 EDT References: <2373@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: Plaidhenge Lines: 17 Summary: Phil Farmer has also written an Oz book that got left off the original list #41 -- A Barnstormer in Oz. This book doesn't really continue the Oz tradition, it assumes that the REAL Oz (the Oz in Farmer's book) was severely watered down for the children's books that Baum wrote. Like most of Farmer's work that I've read, I was disappointed that he took a great idea and did a lackluster job on it. chuq -- :From the misfiring synapses of: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA The offices were very nice, and the clients were only raping the land, and then, of course, there was the money...