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MarcusMebes [2009-10-29 13:19:01 +0000 UTC]
She's always been one of my favorite Oz characters, and I explored her reasons for leaving Anuther and heading for Earth in my book "Lurline and the White Ravens of Oz" (revised edition). LOVE IT!
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saintfighteraqua In reply to MarcusMebes [2009-10-29 16:39:58 +0000 UTC]
I'm glad you like her! I know my color choices might be off from what others imagine, but since the book cover is the only version to go by, I chose to follow Miss Thompson's description instead.
Sadly very few know who she is.
I still need to read your Lurline book, I have it on my PC, I hope it's the revised edition.
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EmmetEarwax In reply to saintfighteraqua [2010-05-11 14:21:34 +0000 UTC]
I mentioned her in my Oz novel in the chapter "Oz's greatest feast" celebrating the victory of the heroes ! She is among the kaleidoscope of guests .
I made one blooper,tho, having the Hungry tiger devour TWO huge meals,(having forgotten that I already had him eat earlier). I even had the king of Mo and his 4 sons ,tho Casper had earlier dismissed the Mo stories as pure impossible fiction !
Spooky remarks that Thun is the first person he EVER met that had Closed Captioning !
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saintfighteraqua In reply to EmmetEarwax [2010-05-11 21:51:19 +0000 UTC]
She's one of the really endearing Oz characters. I'd draw Thun too, but I'm not very good with horses.
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DasTenna [2009-10-14 15:01:56 +0000 UTC]
Very difficult for her to survive on other planets, isnΒ΄t it? Why did she left her homeworld anyway?
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saintfighteraqua In reply to DasTenna [2009-10-14 16:57:20 +0000 UTC]
I don't remember, lol. I think it had something to do with a comet though.
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Grace-Dupre [2009-10-12 03:40:36 +0000 UTC]
I can never find that book anywhere! Haha...but it sounds kind of fun!
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saintfighteraqua In reply to Grace-Dupre [2009-10-12 16:22:10 +0000 UTC]
It's super rare now. I actually owned two copies, (as a kid) but gave one away when i was a kid. One I had bought the other I'd won for a poetry or Art contest, I can't remember.
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Rem-Gottingen [2009-10-10 12:42:43 +0000 UTC]
The book of Ruth P. Tompson, yes? I have a translation, but
have not yet read it. In any case, Planetty is beautiful and strange.
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ozma914 [2009-10-10 04:47:36 +0000 UTC]
This is a character I haven't met ... which is especially sad because I have the book but just haven't read it yet. I'm so ashamed ...
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saintfighteraqua In reply to ozma914 [2009-10-10 04:52:02 +0000 UTC]
That book is getting hard to find too!! I bought a copy years ago, then won a second copy via a contest i entered, but I gave the second copy as a Christmas gift one year.
You should read it, Planetty is nice. Though the story it's self is a bit racist in a way.
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ozma914 In reply to saintfighteraqua [2009-10-10 05:26:22 +0000 UTC]
Well, in the context of the times that kind of racist characterization was done by rote; I suspect Baum would never consider such a thing if he was writing now. I do want to read the story -- just haven't gotten around to it, yet.
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EmmetEarwax In reply to ozma914 [2010-05-10 02:35:45 +0000 UTC]
I have all the Ruth Plumly Thompson additions to the Oz mythos, and esp. this book. Ballantine stopped re-publishing the books with just 4 to go, but Wonder Books came out with the reprints of the rest of her series (years later she rewrote a non-Oz fantasy as an awkward Oz novellete, and wrote a 2nd true Oz book. Both were beautifully and wonderfully illustrated by Dick Martin. He's dead now -like everybody else. I dedicated MY Oz novel to his memory. )
The O'Niell Oz stories were too wild and wasteful for me to consider canonical.I didn't buy the last one. Wonder Books has come out with an unpublished 4th book he wrote,but never published. I passed on that one as well.
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ozma914 In reply to EmmetEarwax [2010-05-11 03:37:56 +0000 UTC]
I have only a few of the Thompson books -- I didn't even know they existed until I was in my early twenties, after reading Baum's books over and over again all through my childhood. Thank goodness for Wonder books! Someday I plan to read all of them, even the O'Niell stories, although I leafed through a copy once and came to the same conclusion you did.
You wrote an Oz novel? Did I miss this before? (I know you haven't read mine, because it's not written yet!)
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EmmetEarwax In reply to ozma914 [2010-05-11 14:08:47 +0000 UTC]
Yes, I wrote "Casper & Co. in Oz",which runs about 100 pgs (prob.~200 if ever published -with Harvey's permission).
I set it in Winkie country, as that is,despite a lot of Oz novels, many non-canonical, still with a lot of empty areas.
I feel it's very good,as I was nearing my peak of writing inspiration and energy. Still, to get it out as a fan-fic would be rather difficult as it is large and I don't have the pep to do cold copy. Also the illos. would have to be omitted.
I TRIED to scan my artwork and post it in the deviations gallery, but got CRAP and resistance from the DevArt program, and had to give up.
I did manage to post -in my "favorites" gallery, a picture of me. How it got there is a long story and I never want to see the Filipino weirdo who took that pic again !
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